Historical Note on Probability



                                        Historical Note on Probability

             
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         Probability theory like many other branches of mathematics, evolved out    of practical consideration. It had its origin in the 16th century when an Italian physician and mathematician Jerome Cardan (1501–1576) wrote the first book on the subject
“Book on Games of Chance” (Biber de Ludo Aleae). It was published in 1663after his death.

In 1654, a gambler Chevalier de Metre approached the well known French
Philosopher and Mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) for certain dice
problem. Pascal became interested in these problems and discussed with famous
French Mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665). Both Pascal and Fermat
solved the problem independently. Besides, Pascal and Fermat, outstanding
contributions to probability theory were also made by Christian Huygenes (1629–
1665), a Dutchman, J. Bernoulli (1654–1705), De Moivre (1667–1754), a
Frenchman Pierre Laplace (1749–1827), the Russian P.L Chebyshev (1821–1897),
A. A Markov (1856–1922) and A. N Kolmogorove (1903–1987). Kolmogorov is
credited with the axiomatic theory of probability. His book ‘Foundations of
Probability’ published in 1933, introduces probability as a set function and is considered a classic.
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