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probability theorist

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Noun1.probability theorist - a mathematician who specializes in probability theory
mathematician - a person skilled in mathematics


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One of them will be the fourth left-handed president out of the five past holders of the world's most powerful office, a fact that has intrigued neurologists and confounded probability theorists.
Lebanese born Nassim Nicholas Talib, a probability theorist, uses the black swan event as a metaphor to describe the hard to predict, large impact, random happenings beyond the realm of normal expectation that can wreck the best laid plans of mice and men or - because they come in every possible shape, size, colour and guise - gloriously transform the hour, the day or a whole life.
Probability theorists suspect that the reason for this is a simple one--that humanists hate numbers.
 
 
 
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