probability theory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of probability theory
First recorded in 1830–40
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“Anthropologists, sociologists, historians and psychologists, as well as those working on probability theory and physics, took him to have important insights for their disciplines.”
From New York Times ● May 28, 2023
Lizza’s mother, Oksana, a professor of probability theory and statistical mathematics at Pryazovskyi State Technical University, didn’t want to leave without her own parents, who lived in another neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
He helped lay the foundations of calculus and probability theory.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
That is because the process of percolation is subject to a general principle in probability theory called the zero-one law, discovered by Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov in the 1930s.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 16, 2021
Since Galileo, of course, all sorts of new languages have been invented with which to do science, including algebra, calculus and probability theory.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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