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Born in Vancouver, British Columbia
Ian Hacking was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1936. Dr. Hacking has spent his entire life working towards exploring and addressing scientific realism. His connecting work in this field and others led him to win the Holberg Prize in 2009. -
Statistical Inference
Dr. Hacking's research into statistical inference was instrumental in understanding how probability theory and statistics came to change both science and our everyday life during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Understanding Statistical Inference -
The Emergence of Probability
Doctor Ian Hacking started off his 1975 book by asking the question of"Why was there no probability theory in the West before Pascal in the seventeenth century?" The main reason this became central to the history of probability is that Dr. Hacking did not ask WHY, but rather, HOW these thoughts came into being. Making Probability Mathematical -
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