| ▲ | seanhunter 3 hours ago | |
Right, and Cauchy is the person we have to thank for Bayes’ Theorem, and of course Euler, De Moivre, Poisson and Gauss for the Gaussian integral[1]. You can’t really get figures more central to mathematics than that. [1] Athough Gauss apparently credited it to Laplace. | ||
| ▲ | sorokod an hour ago | parent [-] | |
Most of the names you mention belong to the next (18th) century. Gauss worked out some sort of probability distribution too. | ||