A SHORT HISTORY OF

PROBABILITY
CHRISTIAN HUYGENS
Dutch Scientist
A teacher of Leibniz
De Ratiociniis in Ludo Aleae (1
st
book on
probability, a treatise on problems associated
with gambling)

PIERRE- SIMON DE LAPLACE
(1749 1827)
French Mathematician and astronomer
Theorie Analytique des Probabilites
Applied probabilistic ideas to many
scientific and practical problems

ANDREY KOLMOGOROV
(25 April 1903 20 October 1987)
Soviet Mathematician
Foundations of Probability Theory
Probability theory is now part of a more
general discipline known as measure theory