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Condorcet applied mathematics in a precocious and philosophically argued fashion to humanistic and social problems. His probabilistic work is full of interesting ideas on mathematical expectation and inverse probability, and takes into account evolution over time, amongst other matters.
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Crépel, P. (2001). Marquis de Condorcet. 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_18
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