Ask HN: Good long form presentation of the history of probability theory
How did it start? How did it evolve? Who were the main players? First big success stories? Competing formalism?
Ian Hacking has two books, he is a philosopher, accordingly they have a broader outlook: "The Taming of Chance" "The Emergence of Probability"
Stephen Stigler's "The History of Statistics" seems to be the most popular history of statistics.