On Jacob Bernoulli, the Law of Large Numbers, and the Origins of the Central Limit Theorem

In my <a href="https://medium.com/towards-data-science/a-new-look-at-the-central-limit-theorem-d80735682f90" rel="noopener">previous article</a>, I introduced you to the Central Limit Theorem. We disassembled its definition, looked at its applications, and watched it do its magic in a simulation. I ended that article with a philosophical question asked by a famous 17th century mathematician about how nature behaves when confronted with a large collection of anything. A question that was to lead to the discovery of the Central Limit Theorem more than a century later. In this article, I’ll root into this question, and into the life of the mathematician who pondered over it, and into the big discovery that unfolded from it. <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/on-jacob-bernoulli-the-law-of-large-numbers-and-the-origins-of-the-central-limit-theorem-8101bc6104e1">Read More</a>