The ghosts of the École Normale

DOI10.1214/15-STS512zbMATH Open1332.01051OpenAlexW2944598145WikidataQ62029091 ScholiaQ62029091MaRDI QIDQ254468FDOQ254468

Authors: Laurent Mazliak 

Publication date: 8 March 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1439220719

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zbMATH Keywords

functional analysishistory of mathematicsintegrationprobabilityWiener measure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of functional analysis (46-03) History of probability theory (60-03)

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• Paul Lévy’s Perspective on Jean Ville and Martingales
• Introduction: The Latin Sisters and Mathematics
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• Doob at Lyon: Bringing Martingales Back to France
• The Dawn of Martingale Convergence: Jessen’s Theorem and Lévy’s Lemma
• Lines on the horizon. Hadamard and Fréchet, readers of Volterra

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