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  • ...the age of sixteen, and later corresponded with [[Pierre de Fermat]] on [[probability theory]], strongly influencing the development of modern [[economics]] and ...e just two months after his 39th birthday.<ref>Hald, Anders ''A History of Probability and Statistics and Its Applications before 1750'', (Wiley Publications, 199 ...
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  • ...ied only to our own [[Solar System]], the SNDM was subsequently thought by theorists to be at work throughout the [[universe]]; over 340 [[extrasolar planet]]s ...161..431T}}</ref> Hypotheses do not predict a merger stage, due to the low probability of collisions between planetary embryos in the outer part of planetary syst ...
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  • ...Ph.D.]] in 1951 for a dissertation entitled "The Meaning of the Concept of Probability in Application to Finite Sequences". Putnam's teachers [[Hans Reichenbach]] ...the same [[neurochemistry]] as humans. Putnam concluded that type-identity theorists had been making an "ambitious" and "highly implausible" conjecture which co ...
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  • ...[[Solar System#Notes]] and [[List of Solar System objects by mass]])</ref> Theorists believe it is no accident that Jupiter lies just beyond the frost line. Bec However, over time, the [[Cumulative distribution function|cumulative probability]] of a chance encounter with a star increases, and disruption of the planet ...
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