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World Service,10 Oct 2020,9 mins

A short history of probability

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Tim Harford speaks to Jacob Goldstein about the unholy marriage of mathematicians, gamblers, and actuaries at the dawn of modern finance. (Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 French mathematician, physicist. Portrait by Philippe de Champaigne. Credit:Getty Images)

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