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n. 1. a property of certain probability distributions: the exponential distributions and the geometric distributions, wherein any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples. 2. the life and times of Steve Myles

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The Fifteen Greatest Mathematicians of All Time

James Dow Allen has a list of “The Fifteen Greatest Mathematicians of All Time” on his site.

While I agree with most of these, I wonder how he neglected Markov and Erlang, though I’m sure he’d argue that they don’t really have the breadth of impact of people like Newton and Gauss.

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