List of mathematical probabilists
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s specializing in probability theory
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s specializing in probability theory
Probability theory
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- David AldousDavid AldousDavid John Aldous, FRS is a mathematician known for his research on mathematical probability theory and its applications, in particular in topics such as exchangeability, weak convergence, Markov chain mixing times, the continuum random tree and stochastic coalescence. He entered St. John's...
(1952–) - Thomas BayesThomas BayesThomas Bayes was an English mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for having formulated a specific case of the theorem that bears his name: Bayes' theorem...
, British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theoremBayes' theoremIn probability theory and applications, Bayes' theorem relates the conditional probabilities P and P. It is commonly used in science and engineering. The theorem is named for Thomas Bayes ....
. (1702–1761) - Gerard Ben-Arous
- Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705)
- Joseph Louis François BertrandJoseph Louis François BertrandJoseph Louis François Bertrand was a French mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics....
(1822–1900) - Abram Samoilovitch BesicovitchAbram Samoilovitch BesicovitchAbram Samoilovitch Besicovitch was a Russian mathematician, who worked mainly in England. He was born in Berdyansk on the Sea of Azov to a Karaite family.-Life and career:...
(1891–1970) - Patrick BillingsleyPatrick BillingsleyPatrick Paul Billingsley was an American mathematician and stage and screen actor, noted for his books in advanced probability theory and statistics. He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.After earning a Ph.D...
(1925–2011) - Carlo Emilio BonferroniCarlo Emilio BonferroniCarlo Emilio Bonferroni was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory. Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was born in Bergamo on 28 January 1892 and died on 18 August 1960 in Firenze . He studied in Torino , held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the...
(1892–1960) - Émile BorelÉmile BorelFélix Édouard Justin Émile Borel was a French mathematician and politician.Borel was born in Saint-Affrique, Aveyron. Along with René-Louis Baire and Henri Lebesgue, he was among the pioneers of measure theory and its application to probability theory. The concept of a Borel set is named in his...
(1871–1956) - Kai Lai ChungKai Lai ChungChung Kai-lai , was a Chinese American mathematician famous for his significant contributions to modern probability theory.-Biography:...
(1917–2009) - Amir Dembo
- Abraham de MoivreAbraham de MoivreAbraham de Moivre was a French mathematician famous for de Moivre's formula, which links complex numbers and trigonometry, and for his work on the normal distribution and probability theory. He was a friend of Isaac Newton, Edmund Halley, and James Stirling...
(1667–1754) - Persi DiaconisPersi DiaconisPersi Warren Diaconis is an American mathematician and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University....
(1945–) - Joseph Leo DoobJoseph Leo DoobJoseph Leo Doob was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory.The theory of martingales was developed by Doob.-Early life and education:...
(1910–2004) - Eugene DynkinEugene DynkinEugene Borisovich Dynkin is a Soviet and American mathematician. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes...
(1924–) - Paul ErdősPaul ErdosPaul Erdős was a Hungarian mathematician. Erdős published more papers than any other mathematician in history, working with hundreds of collaborators. He worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory...
(1913–1996) - Steve Evans
- William FellerWilliam FellerWilliam Feller born Vilibald Srećko Feller , was a Croatian-American mathematician specializing in probability theory.-Early life and education:...
(1906–1970) - Bruno de FinettiBruno de FinettiBruno de Finetti was an Italian probabilist, statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability...
, Italian probabilist and statisticianStatisticianA statistician is someone who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. The core of that work is to measure, interpret, and describe the world and human activity patterns within it...
(1906–1985) - Geoffrey GrimmettGeoffrey GrimmettGeoffrey Richard Grimmett is a mathematician working in probability theory. He is the Professor of Mathematical Statistics in the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge....
(1950–) - Ian HackingIan HackingIan Hacking, CC, FRSC, FBA is a Canadian philosopher, specializing in the philosophy of science.- Life and works :...
(1936–) - Paul HalmosPaul HalmosPaul Richard Halmos was a Hungarian-born American mathematician who made fundamental advances in the areas of probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis . He was also recognized as a great mathematical expositor.-Career:Halmos obtained his B.A...
(1916–2006) - Joseph HalpernJoseph HalpernJoseph Yehuda Halpern is a professor of computer science at Cornell University. Most of his research is on reasoning about knowledge and uncertainty....
- Kiyoshi ItōKiyoshi Itowas a Japanese mathematician whose work is now called Itō calculus. The basic concept of this calculus is the Itō integral, and among the most important results is Itō's lemma. The Itō calculus facilitates mathematical understanding of random events...
(1915–2008) - Edwin Thompson JaynesEdwin Thompson JaynesEdwin Thompson Jaynes was Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis...
(1922–1998) - Mark KacMark KacMark Kac was a Polish mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. Kac completed his Ph.D...
(1914–1984) - Olav Kallenberg
- Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–)
- Samuel KarlinSamuel KarlinSamuel Karlin was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.Karlin was born in Yanova, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child...
(1924–2007) - David George KendallDavid George KendallDavid George Kendall FRS was an English statistician, who spent much of his academic life in the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. He worked with M. S...
(1918–2007) - Rick Kenyon
- John Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard KeynesJohn Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
, best known for his pioneering work in economicsEconomicsEconomics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...
(1883–1946) - Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959)
- Wolfgang Kőnig
- Andrey KolmogorovAndrey KolmogorovAndrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov was a Soviet mathematician, preeminent in the 20th century, who advanced various scientific fields, among them probability theory, topology, intuitionistic logic, turbulence, classical mechanics and computational complexity.-Early life:Kolmogorov was born at Tambov...
(1903–1987) - Pierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon LaplacePierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace was a French mathematician and astronomer whose work was pivotal to the development of mathematical astronomy and statistics. He summarized and extended the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste...
(1749–1827) - Gregory Lawler
- Lucien Le CamLucien le CamLucien Marie Le Cam was a mathematician and statistician. He obtained a Ph.D. in 1952 at the University of California, Berkeley, was appointed Assistant Professor in 1953 and continued working there beyond his retirement in 1991 until his death.Le Cam was the major figure during the period 1950...
(1924–2000) - Jean Francois Le-Gall
- Paul Pierre LévyPaul Pierre LévyPaul Pierre Lévy was a Jewish French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing martingales and Lévy flights...
(1886–1971) - Jarl Waldemar LindebergJarl Waldemar LindebergJarl Waldemar Lindeberg was a Finnish mathematician known for work on the central limit theorem....
(1876–1932) - Stefan MazurkiewiczStefan MazurkiewiczStefan Mazurkiewicz was a Polish mathematician who worked in mathematical analysis, topology, and probability. He was a student of Wacław Sierpiński and a member of the Polish Academy of Learning...
(1888–1945) - Paul-André MeyerPaul-André MeyerPaul-André Meyer was a French mathematician, who played a major role in the development of the 'general theory of stochastic processes'...
(1934–2003) - Richard von Mises (1883–1953)
- Andrey MarkovAndrey MarkovAndrey Andreyevich Markov was a Russian mathematician. He is best known for his work on theory of stochastic processes...
(1856–1922) - Octav OnicescuOctav OnicescuOctav Onicescu was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics.-Biography:...
(1892–1983) - Blaise PascalBlaise PascalBlaise Pascal , was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Catholic philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen...
(1623–1662) - Siméon-Denis Poisson (1781–1840)
- Charles E. M. PearceCharles E. M. PearceCharles Edward Miller Pearce is a New Zealand/Australian mathematician.He is currently the Elder Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Adelaide.-Education:...
(1940–) - Yuval Peres
- Jim Pitman
- Yuri Vasilevich ProkhorovYuri Vasilevich ProkhorovYuri Vasilevich Prokhorov is a Russian mathematician, active in the field of probability theory. He was a PhD student of Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov at the Moscow State University, where he obtained his PhD in 1949....
(1929–) - Alfréd RényiAlfréd RényiAlfréd Rényi was a Hungarian mathematician who made contributions in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory but mostly in probability theory.-Life:...
(1921–1970) - Frank P. RamseyFrank P. RamseyFrank Plumpton Ramsey was a British mathematician who, in addition to mathematics, made significant and precocious contributions in philosophy and economics before his death at the age of 26...
(1903–1930) - Henry P. Mckean, Jr (1930–)
- Oded SchrammOded SchrammOded Schramm was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.-Biography:...
(1961–2008) - Frank SpitzerFrank SpitzerFrank Ludvig Spitzer was an Austrian-born American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to probability theory, including the theory of random walks, fluctuation theory, percolation theory, the Wiener sausage, and especially the theory of interacting particle systems...
(1926–1992) - Michel TalagrandMichel TalagrandMichel Pierre Talagrand is a French mathematician. Docteur ès sciences since 1977, he has been, since 1985, Directeur de Recherches at CNRS and a member of the Functional Analysis Team of the Institut de Mathématique of Paris...
(1952–) - Timerding, Heinrich EmilHeinrich Emil TimerdingHeinrich Carl Franz Emil Timerding was a German mathematician, professor at the Technical University Braunschweig, mainly known for his contributions to probability theory.-Main publications:...
(1873–1945) - Norbert WienerNorbert WienerNorbert Wiener was an American mathematician.A famous child prodigy, Wiener later became an early researcher in stochastic and noise processes, contributing work relevant to electronic engineering, electronic communication, and control systems.Wiener is regarded as the originator of cybernetics, a...
(1894–1964) - David WilliamsDavid Williams (mathematician)David Williams is a Welsh mathematician who works in probability theory.He was educated at Gowerton Grammar School, winning a mathematics scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, and went on to obtain a DPhil under the supervision of D. G. Kendall and G. E. H...
- David Wilson
- Ruslan L. StratonovichRuslan L. StratonovichRuslan Leont'evich Stratonovich was an outstanding physicist, engineer, and probabilist. Professor Stratonovich was born on May 31, 1930 in Moscow, Russia...
(1930–1997) - Andrei ToomAndrei ToomAndrei Toom, also known as André Toom, is a Russian mathematician currently living in Brazil, famous for his early work in analysis of algorithms , cellular automata, probability theory and lifelong interest in mathematical education...
(1942–) - Albert ShiryaevAlbert ShiryaevAl'bert Nikolayevich Shiryaev is a Soviet and Russian mathematician. He is known for his work in probability theory, statistics and financial mathematics....
(1934–) - S. R. Srinivasa VaradhanS. R. Srinivasa VaradhanSathamangalam Ranga Iyengar Srinivasa Varadhan FRS is an Indian-American mathematician from Madras , Tamil Nadu, India.-Biography:...
(1940–) - Wendelin WernerWendelin WernerWendelin Werner is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. In 2006, at the 25th International Congress of Mathematicians in Madrid, Spain he received the...
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