More than a century before quantum mechanics was born, Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton stumbled onto an idea that would quietly foreshadow one of the deepest truths in physics. While ...

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The central limit theorem started as a bar trick for 18th-century gamblers. Now scientists rely on it every day.

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