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Arguably the greatest French mathematician of the 17th century, Fermat was instrumental in giving impetus, together with Pascal, to the theory of probability.
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Seneta, E. (2001). Pierre de Fermat. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_2
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