Prior to the development of statistics in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, even rationalists were convinced that no human could speculate on the future. Devlin, NPR's ""Math Guy"" and ...
EVEN scholars once thought that fortune alone controlled the future. Forecasting it, unless they were at a casino, was deemed impossible. But Pascal and Fermat, in a series of dashed-off letters in ...
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