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List Of Mathematical Probabilists
:''See probabilism for the followers of such a theory in theology or philosophy''. {{ProbabilityTopicsTOC This list contains only probabilists in the sense of mathematicians specializing in probability theory. :''This list is incomplete; please add to it.'' *David Aldous (born 1952) *Thomas Bayes (1702–1761) - British mathematician and Presbyterian minister, known for Bayes' theorem * Gerard Ben-Arous (born 1957) - Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences *Itai Benjamini *Jakob Bernoulli (1654–1705) - Switzerland, known for Bernoulli trials *Joseph Louis François Bertrand (1822–1900) *Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch (1891–1970) *Patrick Billingsley (1925–2011) * Erwin Bolthausen (born 1945) *Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (1892–1960) *Émile Borel (1871–1956) *Kai Lai Chung (1917–2009) *Erhan Cinlar (born 1941) *Harald Cramér (1893–1985) *Amir Dembo (born 1958) *Persi Diaconis (born 1945) *Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004) *Lester Dubins (1920–2010) *Eugene Dynkin (1924 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Probabilism
In theology and philosophy, probabilism (from Latin ''probare'', to test, approve) is an ancient Greek doctrine of Academic skepticism. It holds that in the absence of certainty, plausibility or truth-likeness is the best criterion. The term can also refer to a 17th-century religious thesis about ethics, or a modern physical-philosophical thesis. Philosophy Ancient In ancient Greek philosophy, probabilism referred to the doctrine which gives assistance in ordinary matters to one who is skeptical in respect of the possibility of real knowledge: it supposes that though knowledge is impossible, a man may rely on strong beliefs in practical affairs. This view was held by the skeptics of the New Academy. Academic skeptics accept probabilism, while Pyrrhonian skeptics do not. Modern In modern usage, a probabilist is someone who believes that central epistemological issues are best approached using probabilities. This thesis is neutral with respect to whether knowledge entails ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erwin Bolthausen
Erwin Bolthausen (born 15 October 1945 in Rohr, Aargau) is a Swiss mathematician, specializing in probability theory, statistics, and stochastic models in mathematical physics. Education and career Bolthausen received his doctorate in mathematics under Beno Eckmann in 1973 from ETH Zurich. Bolthausen's thesis was entitled ''Einfache Isomorphietypen in lokalisierten Kategorien und einfache Homotopietypen von Polyeder'' (Simple isomorphic types in localized categories and simple homotopy types of polyhedra). In 1978 he completed his habilitation at the University of Konstanz and was then an associate professor of mathematics at the Goethe University Frankfurt for the academic year 1978–1979. From 1979 to 1990 he was a full professor at the Technical University of Berlin. Since 1990 he is a full professor at the University of Zurich, (with CV & links to many preprints) where he headed the ''Institut für Mathematik'' from 1998 to 2001. In the early years of his career Bolthausen di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Etheridge
Alison Mary Etheridge One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: (born 1964) is Professor of Probability and Head of the Department of Statistics, University of Oxford. Etheridge is a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Education Etheridge was educated at Smestow School and the University of Oxford where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree followed by a Doctor of Philosophy in 1989 for research supervised by David Albert Edwards. Career and research Following her PhD, Etheridge held research fellowships in Oxford and Cambridge and positions at the University of California, Berkeley, The University of Edinburgh, and Queen Mary University of London before returning to Oxford in 1997. Over the course of her career, her interests have ranged from abstract mathematical problems to concrete applications as reflected in her four books which range from a research monograph on mathematical objects called superprocesses to an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Erdős
Paul Erdős ( hu, Erdős Pál ; 26 March 1913 – 20 September 1996) was a Hungarian mathematician. He was one of the most prolific mathematicians and producers of mathematical conjectures of the 20th century. pursued and proposed problems in discrete mathematics, graph theory, number theory, mathematical analysis, approximation theory, set theory, and probability theory. Much of his work centered around discrete mathematics, cracking many previously unsolved problems in the field. He championed and contributed to Ramsey theory, which studies the conditions in which order necessarily appears. Overall, his work leaned towards solving previously open problems, rather than developing or exploring new areas of mathematics. Erdős published around 1,500 mathematical papers during his lifetime, a figure that remains unsurpassed. He firmly believed mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert J
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugene Dynkin
Eugene Borisovich Dynkin (russian: link=no, Евгений Борисович Дынкин; 11 May 1924 – 14 November 2014) was a USSR, Soviet and American mathematician. He made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially Semisimple Lie group, semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him. Biography Dynkin was born into a Jewish family, living in Saint Petersburg, Leningrad until 1935, when his family was exiled to Kazakhstan. Two years later, when Dynkin was 13, his father disappeared in the Gulag. Moscow University At the age of 16, in 1940, Dynkin was admitted to Moscow University. He avoided military service in World War II because of his poor eyesight, and received his Master of Science, MS in 1945 and his PhD in 1948. He became an assistant professor at Moscow, but was not awarded a "chair" until 1954 because of his political undesirability. His academic pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Dubins
Lester Dubins (April 27, 1920 – February 11, 2010) was an American mathematician noted primarily for his research in probability theory. He was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley from 1962 through 2004, and in retirement was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics. It has been thought that, since classic red-and-black casino roulette is a game in which the house on average wins more than the gambler, that "bold play", i.e. betting one's whole purse on a single trial, is a uniquely optimal strategy. While a graduate student at the University of Chicago, Dubins surprised his teacher Leonard Jimmie Savage with a mathematical demonstration that this is not true. Dubins and Savage wrote a book that appeared in 1965 titled ''How to Gamble if You Must (Inequalities for Stochastic Processes)'' which presented a mathematical theory of gambling processes and optimal behavior in gambling situations, pointing out their relevance to traditional approac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Leo Doob
Joseph Leo Doob (February 27, 1910 – June 7, 2004) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. The theory of martingales was developed by Doob. Early life and education Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 27, 1910, the son of a Jewish couple, Leo Doob and Mollie Doerfler Doob. The family moved to New York City before he was three years old. The parents felt that he was underachieving in grade school and placed him in the Ethical Culture School, from which he graduated in 1926. He then went on to Harvard where he received a BA in 1930, an MA in 1931, and a PhD (''Boundary Values of Analytic Functions'', advisor Joseph L. Walsh) in 1932. After postdoctoral research at Columbia and Princeton, he joined the Department of Mathematics of the University of Illinois in 1935 and served until his retirement in 1978. He was a member of the Urbana campus's Center for Advanced Study from its beginning in 1959. During the Second World War, he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persi Diaconis
Persi Warren Diaconis (; born January 31, 1945) is an American mathematician of Greek descent and former professional magician. He is the Mary V. Sunseri Professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Stanford University. He is particularly known for tackling mathematical problems involving randomness and randomization, such as coin flipping and shuffling playing cards. Biography Diaconis left home at 14 to travel with sleight-of-hand legend Dai Vernon, and dropped out of high school, returning to school at age 24 to learn math, motivated to read William Feller's famous two-volume treatise on probability theory, ''An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications''. He attended the City College of New York for his undergraduate work, graduating in 1971, and then obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from Harvard University in 1974), learned to read Feller, and became a mathematical probabilist.Jeffrey R. Young, "The Magical Mind of Persi Diaconis" ''Chronicle of Highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amir Dembo
Amir Dembo (born 25 October 1958, Haifa) is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. Biography Dembo received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1980 from the Technion. He obtained in 1986 his doctorate in electrical engineering under the supervision of David Malah with the thesis "Design of Digital FIR Filter Arrays". He joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Mathematics in 1990, and is currently the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science there. His research deals with probability theory and stochastic processes, the theory of large deviations, the spectral theory of random matrices, random walks, and interacting particle systems. He was Invited Speaker with the talk ''Simple random covering, disconnection, late and favorite points'' at the ICM in Madrid in 2006. Dembo is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harald Cramér
Harald Cramér (; 25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) was a Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory. John Kingman described him as "one of the giants of statistical theory".Kingman 1986, p. 186. Biography Early life Harald Cramér was born in Stockholm, Sweden on 25 September 1893. Cramér remained close to Stockholm for most of his life. He entered the University of Stockholm as an undergraduate in 1912, where he studied mathematics and chemistry. During this period, he was a research assistant under the famous chemist, Hans von Euler-Chelpin, with whom he published his first five articles from 1913 to 1914. Following his lab experience, he began to focus solely on mathematics. He eventually began his work on his doctoral studies in mathematics which were supervised by Marcel Riesz at the University of Stockholm. Also influenced by G. H. Hardy, Cramér's research led to a PhD in 1917 for his th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erhan Cinlar
Erhan is a Turkish given of raw Turkic origin, with the combination of word “Er” and “Han”, and is a name for males. It has the meanings "Soldier King, or Soldier Khan'. Er means Soldier and Han means Khan. It is a Turkish name. Given name * Erhan Albayrak (born 1977), Turkish football player * Erhan Altın (born 1956), Turkish football player and manager * Erhan Aydın (born 1981), Turkish football player * Erhan Çinlar (born 1941), Turkish American probabilist and Professor Emeritus in Engineering at Princeton University * Erhan Deniz (born 1985), Turkish kickboxer * Erhan Dünge (born 1980), Turkish volleyball player * Erhan Emre (born 1978), Turkish–German actor, director, film producer and writer * Erhan Güven (born 1982), Turkish football player * Erhan Kartal (born 1993), Turkish footballer * Erhan Can Kartal (born 1998), Turkish actor * Erhan Kavak (born 1987), Turkish-Swiss football player * Erhan Kuşkapan (born 1988), Turkish football player * Erhan Mašo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
