probability theory
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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
This direction of developing probability theory for more complicated structures than numbers is an example.
From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2022
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
Dr. Conway’s boundless curiosity produced profound contributions to number theory, game theory, coding theory, group theory, knot theory, topology, probability theory, algebra, analysis, combinatorics and more.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2020
In mathematics Pascal helped invent a whole new branch of the field: probability theory.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
