Probability and statistics

Probability and Statistics

By peytshock5
  • 384 BCE

    Aristotle

    A Greek philosopher, proposed that events could be divided into three areas.
  • 325 BCE

    Early Christian Theology

    They believed in no such thing as chance and that there was direct manifestation of God's Intervention.
  • 117 BCE

    Greek Western Culture

    The Greeks were comfortable with the thought that events in life were up to chance. It went against their ways that random events could be quantified in a useful way. They would rather think through problems logically rather than answer through experimentations.
  • Mar 23, 801

    Al-Kindi

    Developed the first code breaking algorithm and authored a book in which he had in depth discussions about statistics.

  • Pierre de Fermat

    Father of Probability

  • Chevalier De Mere

    Gambler and significant figure of probability.

  • John Graunt

    Father of Statistics

  • Blaise Pascal

    Father of Probability

  • Florence Nightingale

    One of the first people to collect statistics on health policy and pioneer for women statisticians.