A ``neoclassic probabilist: Francesco Paolo Cantelli

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(88)90049-3MaRDI QIDQ1101096zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Margherita Benzi

Publication date 1988

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(88)90049-3

zbMATH Keywords

E. Borelfoundations of probabilityR. von Misesrandom variablesrelative frequencies

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of probability theory (60-03)

Review text

A short curriculum vitae of F. P. Cantelli (1875-1966) is given. His name is connected with that of E. Borel (1871-1956) by the `lemma of Borel- Cantelli', but their concepts of probability are different. The papers of Cantelli in the years 1916-1917 about the possibility of defining probability as limiting form of relative frequencies and his abstract theory have been strongly discussed in Italy. His neoclassical concept of probability has been reconsidered by R. von Mises in 1936. This contribution and a remark by Cantelli are to be found in the Giornale dell'Istituto Italiano degli Attuari 3, 235-255.

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