HACKER Q&A
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Good long form presentation of the history of probability theory


How did it start? How did it evolve? Who were the main players? First big success stories? Competing formalism?


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This is a very good book, fairly mathematical: https://archive.org/details/ofmathemahistory00todhrich

Ian Hacking has two books, he is a philosopher, accordingly they have a broader outlook: "The Taming of Chance" "The Emergence of Probability"

Stephen Stigler's "The History of Statistics" seems to be the most popular history of statistics.