How’s everyone doing? Hope all is well. Been kinda busy lately and nothing to write about really. I dunno. Anyway, tomorrow (11/12) is the Normal Distribution’s 275th birthday. Heard it from some ultimate nerdy that…
The normal distribution first appeared in a 7 page printed note in Latin
Approximatio ad Summam Terminorum
Binomii in Seriem Expansi
Autore A.D.M.R.S.S.*
November 12, 1733
*i.e., Abraham De Moivre, Socius of the Royal Society
and in its English translations in the 1738 and 1756 editions of De Moivre’s The Doctrine of Chances.
So, to our beloved Normal Distribution, for making our lives a lot easier, for making the abstract seem… less scary, and for being born…. Happy Birthday to you! May normality continue to rule the world making lives simpler and friendster relationships a little less complicated. Cheers!!!
(Darn, i hope there is a way to turn off my trackpad, it’s really sensitive and so annoying).
Wow, geek trivia, haha! :p Happy birthday, Normal Distribution (even if I have no idea what it all means)! :p
Belated Happy Birthday to Normal Distribution from a Stat Major turned Programmer