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It is a curious circumstance that a science so profoundly mathematical as the theory of probability should have originated in the games of chance which occupy the thoughtless and the profligate.

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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. Based on quote from Shakespeare, Twelfth Night Act II, scene v: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
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Robert Simpson Woodward

Robert Simpson Woodward

Born: July 21, 1849
Died: June 29, 1924 (aged 74)
Bio: Robert Simpson Woodward was an American physicist and mathematician.
Known for:
  1. Probability and theory of errors (1906)
  2. Smithsonian Geographical Tables (1894)
  3. History of Modern Mathematics (1896)

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