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Ten great ideas about chance / Persi Diaconis, Brian Skyrms

This history explores ten significant concepts that shaped the study of probability and statistics from the sixteenth century. It examines how the measurement of chance was formalised and applied across various mathematical, philosophical, and psychological disciplines.

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