Introduced by names the mathematician who first brought an object to wider mathematical attention. Wikipedia notes the sequence was introduced to the West by "the Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, also known as Fibonacci, who introduced the sequence to Western European mathematics in his 1202 book Liber Abaci." This dimension credits an object to the person who first made it widely known.
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1. Probability Theory (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationHistory of probability sectionQuote, History of probability section
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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