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Probability and theory of errors (1906)
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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.
Robert Simpson Woodward
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Robert Simpson Woodward
Born:
July 21, 1849
Died:
June 29, 1924
(aged 74)
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