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In the 17th century, Abraham de Moivre fled from France to England due to anti-Protestant persecution. To help pay his bills, he provided London gamblers with math-backed advice. His observations led him to write The Doctrine of Chances, the very first textbook on probability theory. https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-math-that-explains-why-bell-curves-are-everywhere-20260316/
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“It’s interesting, in fact, that many mathematicians and computer scientists have an interest in juggling,” the late mathematician Ronald Graham said in a 1980 television interview. “I think it’s the search for patterns and structure that is responsible for this.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/mathematicians-harness-randomness-to-crack-a-55-year-old-conjecture-20260928/