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In what way was it always behind? This work of Fermat and Pascal is ballpark contemporary to the development of calculus.
by sorokod 6mo ago
In 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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