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The Approximate History of Probability
Praxis the robot and Alan the "human man" look at the history of mathematical probability. They meet Galileo, whose work with dice brings him under the suspicion of some rather violent inquisitors. Jacob Bernoulli explains his concept of the law of large numbers.
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