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Probability
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Thus it may seem natural that mathematicians who lived in the sixteenth century would begin to develop a theory of probability because of their frequent contact with games of chance, and indeed many historians view this development as a result of a few interested mathematicians focusing on particular problems to which their attention had been drawn, relating to games of chance. Indeed, many mathematicians chose problems that arose specifically with relation to gambling as examples to study in regard to the computation of probabilities. However, some historians of mathematics hold the view that other economic and political pressures caused the evolution of probability theory. In fact, according to L.E. Maistrov, "If we assume, as is c
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