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Right, 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 r
by seanhunter 6mo ago
Right, 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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