History of the Modern Probability Philosophy

¹ American University of the Middle East, Egaila, Kuwait

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to introduce the evolution of modern probability from its birth in the seventeenth century onwards.

KeywordsProbabilityHistoryModern Probability

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