Probability and statistics are now so obviously necessary t… - Richard Hamming

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Probability and statistics are now so obviously necessary tools for understanding many diverse things that we must not ignore them even for the average student.

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Richard Wesley Hamming (February 11, 1915 – January 7, 1998) was an American mathematician whose work had many implications for computer science and telecommunications. He received the 1968 Turing Award "for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes."

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