History

Here I will collect some web notes on history of probability concepts and scientists who played a significant role in probability, and in turn, in statistics. I do this for personal interest, but I share it here since there may also be some students interested in these topics (some images are clickable).

• The origins of probability

• Binomial coefficients and the binomial theorem:

• Pascal’s triangle

• Venn Diagram:

  John Venn

• Probability Axioms:

  Andrey Kolmogorov

• Thomas Bayes:

• A discussion on naming “random variable”:

• Jacob Bernoulli:

• Siméon Denis Poisson:

• Abraham de Moivre:

• Carl Friedrich Gauss: