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Written and Hosted by Kelsey HoustonEdwards
Produced by Rusty Ward
Graphics by Ray Lux
Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow
Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com)

Resources and Special thanks:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/0...
Kolmogorov Foundations of the Theory of Probability
Ian Hacking The Emergence of Probability


Throughout much of human history, people consciously and intentionally produced randomness. They frequently used dice or diceshaped animal bones and other random objects to gamble, for entertainment, predict the future and communicate with deities. Despite all this engagement with controlled random processes, people didn’t really think of probability in mathematical terms prior to 1600. All of the ingredients were there people had rigorous theories of geometry and algebra, and the ability to rig a game of dice would have certainly provided an incentive to study probability but, there’s very little evidence that they thought about randomness in mathematical terms.


Challenge Winner:

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Comments answered by Kelsey:

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