15 events with tag "probability"
1708
ID: 429
Pierre RΓ©mond de Montmort publishes 'Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard', early work on combinatorics and probability
ID: 429
1713
ID: 430
Jakob Bernoulli's 'Ars Conjectandi' published posthumously, containing combinatorial analysis and Bernoulli numbers
ID: 430
1713
ID: 457
Jacob Bernoulli's Ars Conjectandi published posthumously, establishing probability theory and systematic combinatorics
ID: 457
1714
ID: 460
John Arbuthnot applies probability theory to birth rate statistics, arguing for divine design in equal male/female births
ID: 460
1718
ID: 431
Abraham de Moivre publishes 'The Doctrine of Chances', advancing combinatorial probability theory
ID: 431
1718
ID: 462
London Assurance Company becomes first to use Bernoulli's probability calculations for life insurance premiums
ID: 462
1720
ID: 463
South Sea Bubble demonstrates early application of probability mathematics in finance - first financial crisis analyzed using mathematical risk models
ID: 463
1724
ID: 465
Lloyd's of London begins using de Moivre's probability calculations for marine insurance
ID: 465
1725
ID: 466
Edmond Halley creates first actuarial life table using de Moivre's mortality probability formulas
ID: 466
1733
ID: 498
De Moivre discovers normal distribution approximation to binomial distribution (early central limit theorem)
ID: 498
1753
ID: 546
Daniel Bernoulli applies probability to smallpox inoculation - first mathematical analysis of medical intervention
ID: 546
1763
ID: 567
Thomas Bayes' work published posthumously - Bayes' theorem for updating probability with evidence
ID: 567
1777
ID: 596
Comte de Buffon poses Buffon's needle problem - first geometric probability connecting Ο to random processes
ID: 596
1812
ID: 702
Laplace publishes Theorie analytique - 'probability is common sense reduced to calculus'
ID: 702
1933
ID: 4486
Andrey Kolmogorov publishes axiomatic foundations of probability theory
ID: 4486