Proved results about chance, random processes and statistical inference. Belongs here: theorems in probability and statistics. Does not belong here: results that remain conjectural, or deterministic results outside probability's scope.
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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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