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Luca Pacioli invented (or really, put down on paper) double-entry accounting it is funny how probability has always been way behind other maths. i got to use t
by The_Blade 6mo ago
Luca Pacioli invented (or really, put down on paper) double-entry accounting
it is funny how probability has always been way behind other maths. i got to use the Birthday problem at work, once, which made the math undergrad totally worth it
fortunately my Polymarket and Kalshi wagers are protected by AES et al
- c7b 6mo agoAs one lecturer put it: modern probability theory derived from two foundations - measure theory and gambling. The latter explains why it has long lacked mainstream mathematical recognition :) But that's all in the past. Probability is absolutely established in math academia today, Fields medals and all. And despite its applied nature it's pervasive even in pure math.
- sorokod 6mo agoIn what way was it always behind? This work of Fermat and Pascal is ballpark contemporary to the development of calculus.
- seanhunter 6mo agoRight, and Cauchy is the person we have to thank for Bayes’ Theorem, and of course Euler, De Moivre, Poisson and Gauss for the Gaussian integral[1]. You can’t really get figures more central to mathematics than that. [1] Athough Gauss apparently credited it to Laplace.
- sorokod 6mo agoMost of the names you mention belong to the next (18th) century. Gauss worked out some sort of probability distribution too.
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