MSC2020's 60 through 62 blocks: the mathematics of chance, random processes, and the inference drawn from data they generate. Belongs here: probability and statistics, currently mathematics's one branch in this MSC block; a future wave may split them once either grows large enough to warrant it, the same reasoning transport applied to a thin MSC-style pairing. Does not belong here: game theory, grouped under Mathematical Physics, Biology and Game Theory, which studies strategic rather than random behavior.
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1. Probability Theory (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHistory of probabilityQuote, History of probability
The modern mathematical theory of probability has its roots in attempts to analyze games of chance by Gerolamo Cardano in the sixteenth century, and by Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal in the seventeenth century (for example the "problem of points").
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