"It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge."
2013-08-07
Laplace on Games
Nothing long to post today, but I share this thought from Simon Laplace in his Théorie Analytique des Probabilités (1812) which connects two of my primary interests:
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That's one of the quotes I always use in my statistics lectures. And the letter to Pascal written by the Chevalier de Mere.
ReplyDeleteThat's great! Another thing I always like to quote is Kierkegaard's: "There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." That's now how I always introduce the distinction between Type I and Type II errors in hypothesis testing.
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