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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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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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