Il 30% di pioggia è la frase più strana del mondo

You can now support the channel with a monthly subscription and become a supporter. All my videos will remain free. The subscription supports the invisible work behind every video: study, research, writing, revisions, images, editing, editorial work. Those who become supporters will be the architects of the construction of a dream. The dream of making this project more solid, more independent, more ambitious. If you want to support the channel, you can find the "Subscribe" button or try clicking here 👇 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjaD... 📮 Subscribe to my newsletter 👉🏻 https://antoniodistaso.kit.com/7e8b3f... ✒️ To talk to me: [email protected] Tomorrow it will rain 30%. It seems like a normal sentence. We read it on the weather app. But for millennia, a sentence like that would have seemed absurd: how can you give a number to the future? This is the story of the birth of probability theory. A story that begins with dice, interrupted games, and money to be divided. But it ends much further: in the mathematics that today governs risk, decisions, modern science, and the way we try to navigate uncertainty. In 1654, a gambler brings a seemingly trivial problem to Blaise Pascal. Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat. The two never meet, but through correspondence they establish one of the most powerful ideas in history: the uncertain future can have a calculable value today. Then something incredible happens: Pascal abandons almost everything. Probability is born... and remains an orphan. A journey through mathematics, philosophy, chance, faith, and uncertainty. Because probability has not eliminated the mystery of the future. It has done something more honest: it has given it a measure. 00:00 30% rain is a very strange sentence 02:09 Two millennia without calculating chance 03:03 The problem of the interrupted game 05:05 The fake knight who put Pascal in crisis 07:47 The letters between Pascal and Fermat 10:23 The future becomes a number 11:40 The night Pascal abandoned everything 13:33 Huygens saves probability 15:30 Pascal's wager 18:00 The mathematics that governs our choices today 18:58 Does God really play dice? #mathematics #probability #Pascal #Fermat #historyofmathematics #philosophy #popularization #science