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D’Alembert

b. 17 November 1717 d. 29 October 1783

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D’Alembert’s doubts concerning the calculus of probabilities are more pertinent than has long been believed, and were the starting point for the work of Condorcet and Laplace.

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  1. P. Crépel
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  1. School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia

    C. C. Heyde

  2. Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA

    C. C. Heyde

  3. School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia

    E. Seneta

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Crépel, P. (2001). D’Alembert. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_17

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