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Fermat
Pierre de Fermat (died 1665), French mathematician who, together with Pascal, stood at the origins of probability theory.
A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Pierre-Simon Laplace
Explained in
- A Philosophical Essay on Probabilities, Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk, Peter L. Bernstein
Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665), a lawyer from Toulouse and an outstanding mathematician. Together with Pascal he laid the foundations of probability theory.