Blaise Pascal

Blaise Pascal

male, deceased (1662)
mathematician, physicist, philosopher, child prodigy, born 19.6.1623, born in clermont ferrand…probability theory, Probabilitytheorist
Blaise Pascal, (June 19 1623-August 19 1662) was a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was...
Thomas Bayes

Thomas Bayes

male, deceased (1761)
Alumni of the University of Edinburgh, English, From London, Christian, Kingdom of Great Britain, From Tunbridge Wells…Probabilitytheorist
Thomas Bayes was a British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a special case of Bayes' theorem, which was...
Richard Jeffrey

Richard Jeffrey

male, deceased (2002)
Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Chicago, Princeton University, World War II, Probabilitytheorist…probability, probability theory
Richard C. Jeffrey was an American philosopher, logician, and probability theorist. He was a native of Boston, Massachusetts. Jeffrey served in the...
William Feller

William Feller

male, deceased (1970)
Catholic, Croatian-American, roman, Brown University faculty, Jewish American, croatian…Probabilitytheorist, probability theory
William (Vilim) Feller (July 7 1906 - January 14 1970), born Willibrord, was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.
Albert Shiryaev

Albert Shiryaev

male, 75 years old
Probabilitytheorist, Shchyolkovo, USSR Academy of Sciences, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Soviet mathematician, Moscow Oblast…probability, probability theory
Albert Nikolayevich Shiryaev (Альберт Николаевич Ширяев, born October 12, 1934, Shchyolkovo, Moscow Oblast, Russia) is a Russian mathematician....
Daniel Bernoulli

Daniel Bernoulli

male, deceased (1782)
Streamlines, streaklines and pathlines, New Latin author, From Groningen, mathematician, Swiss, Mathematical analyst…Probabilitytheorist
Daniel Bernoulli (Groningen, February 8, 1700 - Basel, March 17, 1782) was a Dutch-born mathematician who spent much of his life in Basel,...
Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon Laplace

male, deceased (1827)
Laplace operator, Laplace's equation, Laplacian differential operator, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace, mathematician, classical mechanics…probability theory, Probabilitytheorist
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by summarizing and...
Paul Halmos

Paul Halmos

male, deceased (2006)
mathematical expositor, hilbert space, Statistician, naturalized citizen of the United States, Mathematical analyst, hungarian…Probabilitytheorist, probability theory
Paul Richard Halmos (March 3 1916 - October 2 2006) was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who wrote on probability theory, statistics,...
Jacob Bernoulli

Jacob Bernoulli

male, deceased (1705)
Bernoulli family, jacques, james, University of Basel, Number theorist, johann…Probabilitytheorist
Jacob Bernoulli (also known as James or Jacques) was born in Basel, Switzerland on December 27, 1654 and lived until August 16, 1705. He is one of...
Abraham de Moivre

Abraham de Moivre

male, deceased (1754)
Huguenot, edict of nantes, mathematician, French, chess, calvinist…Probabilitytheorist, probability theory
Abraham de Moivre (May 26, 1667 in Vitry-le-François, Champagne, France - November 27, 1754 in London, England; pronounced as) was a French m...