Julia Kagan is a financial/consumer journalist and former senior editor, personal finance, of Investopedia. Investopedia / Ellen Lindner Actuarial science uses mathematical and statistical techniques ...

Praxis the robot and Alan the “human man” look at the history of mathematical probability. They meet Galileo, whose work with dice brings him under the suspicion of some rather violent inquisitors.

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