Michael Perelman wrote:
Many of you probably know about this, mathematics has been intricately associated with gambling for centuries. Here is a popular book reference:
Stigler, in "The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900" goes into depth on how modern probability theory was developed specifically for the nascent insurance companies as well as for various census operations like estimating the fraction of all births that were male (the Bernoulli boys)
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