arXiv AI By Jean-Louis Le Mou\"el, Vincent Courtillot, Dominique Gibert, Vladimir Kossobokov, Jean-Baptiste Boul\'e, Pierpaolo Zuddas, Fernando Lopes, Pa\"ikan Marccagi, Alexis Maineult

On the evolution of the concept of probability as a mirror of the evolution of reason

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arXiv:2606. 00102v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Over the centuries, probability theory has grown from the calculus of games of chance into a central framework for reasoning under uncertainty.

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