Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104
biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic
ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are
Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss,
Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.