Pierre de Fermat (6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit, along with Pascal, for early developments in probability theory.

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What is the chance that two people in a room have the same birthday?

Key questions

Can we find an experimental probability?
What is relative frequency?
What is the Law of Large Numbers?

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Conned Again, Watson by Colin Bruce

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Fermat - narrative

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