Ian Hacking, who wrote a history of probability theory, searched through world literature for any reference to a probability and could find none anywhere before 1600.

伊恩·哈金为概率论追根溯源,他查遍世界所有关于概率的文献,发现无法追溯到十七世纪以前

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And I sent home a questionnaire, asking their parents because most of the children in the class come from other countries. In fact, just about everybody in America comes from another country if you trace far enough.

我还给家长们发了一张问卷，因为班上,大部分学生来自,其它国家，事实上，如果追根溯源，任何一个美国都来自,其它国家。

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The abandonment of such a study or its adulteration for current political purposes would be a terrible loss for all of humanity, and at the base, at the root of that civilization stood the Greeks.

如果出于政治的目的而对此段历史,视而不见甚至完全摒弃,这对全人类,将是一个巨大的损失,追根溯源,这一切都根植于希腊文明

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