A brief recollection of the history of the two-piece normal distribution discovery: 119 years from the first publication of Gustav Fechner original work until its latest re-discovery.
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Brief History of the Central Limit Theorem
A very brief recollection of the history of the Central Limit Theorem: 162 years from Moivre to Feller in a page. If you are interested in reading more about the history of the Central Limit Theorem, I highly recommend: The Central Limit Theorem Around 1935 paper by L. Le Cam published in 1986 in Statistical Science. A History of the Central Limit Theorem, From Classical to Modern Theory Probability book by Hans Fischer published in 2011 […]
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