alleryStart learning →Christiaan Huygens gave the earliest known scientific treatment of probability in which year?
A1763
B1713
C1657
D1654
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. 1657
Huygens published his treatise on games of chance in 1657, soon after the Pascal and Fermat letters.
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