List of probabilists
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A probabilist is either a mathematician specializing in probability theory, or one who espouses probabilism in theology or philosophy.
List of probabilists (i.e., mathematicians working in probability theory):
- Thomas Bayes, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem.
- Jakob Bernoulli
- Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
- Émile Borel
- Abraham de Moivre
- Eugene Dynkin
- William Feller
- Bruno de Finetti, Italian probabilist and statistician
- Ian Hacking
- Joseph Halpern
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes
- John Maynard Keynes, best known for his pioneering work in economics
- Andrey Kolmogorov
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Lucien le Cam
- Paul Pierre Lévy
- Richard von Mises
- Norbert Wiener