Pierre Simon Laplace, Inverse Probability, Central Limit Theorem, Probability, Deep Dives.
students Andrey Andreyevich Markov (1856–1922) and later on Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857–1918) provided the first set of rigorous proofs for the CLT. Lyapunov also extended the CLT’s applicability to random variables that are not necessarily identically distributed, and so did the Finnish