probability theory
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of probability theory
First recorded in 1830–40
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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
Then there was Musil the philosophical scientist, interested in probability theory and logical positivism, as well as in the workings of the mind and the soul.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2019
Two Theoretical Results A large part of the attraction of probability theory is the immediacy and intuitive appeal of its practical problems and of the simple principles which enable us to solve many of them.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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