Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon
The life of Georges Louis Leclerc Comte de Buffon - The Needle and the Age of Earth
Buffon's Needle
A probability problem involving dropping a needle on a floor with parallel lines.
\[ P = \frac{2l}{\pi d} \]
Sources: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Buffon/
