Chance Combinatorics: The Theory that History Forgot

Norton, J. D. (2023). Chance Combinatorics: The Theory that History Forgot: The Theory that History Forgot. Perspectives on Science, 771-810.

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Year

2023

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https://direct.mit.edu/posc/article/31/6/771/117924/Chance-Combinatorics-The-Theory-that-History

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• Problem of Points
  • … rounds played after the game would already have ended. The problem had earlier proposed solutions, so it should not be described as created from nothing in 1654; recent historical scholarship cautions that the correspondence's status as the singular birth of probability is partly a later historiographic construction.

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