Paul Lévy

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French mathematician human mathematician

Paul Lévy was a French mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to probability theory, particularly in the study of stochastic processes and Lévy processes.

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Label Occurrences
Paul Lévy canonical 7

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French mathematician ⓘ
human ⓘ
mathematician ⓘ
countryOfBirth France ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship France ⓘ
educatedAt École Polytechnique ⓘ
École des Ponts et Chaussées ⓘ
employer École Polytechnique ⓘ
École des Ponts et Chaussées ⓘ
ethnicGroup Jewish ⓘ
familyName Levy ⓘ
surface form: Lévy
fieldOfWork functional analysis ⓘ
mathematics ⓘ
probability theory ⓘ
stochastic processes ⓘ
gender male ⓘ
givenName Paul ⓘ
influenced Andrei Kolmogorov ⓘ
surface form: Andrey Kolmogorov

Joseph L. Doob ⓘ
Kiyoshi Itô ⓘ
surface form: Kiyosi Itô

William Feller ⓘ
modern probability theory ⓘ
knownFor Lévy alpha-stable distribution ⓘ
surface form: Lévy distribution

Lévy alpha-stable distribution ⓘ
surface form: Lévy flights

Lévy measure ⓘ
Lévy processes ⓘ
Lévy–Itô decomposition ⓘ
Bochner theorem on characteristic functions ⓘ
surface form: Lévy–Khintchine formula

Lévy’s continuity theorem ⓘ
foundational work in probability theory ⓘ
work on Brownian motion ⓘ
work on infinitely divisible distributions ⓘ
work on martingales ⓘ
work on random series ⓘ
work on stable distributions ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName French ⓘ
memberOf Académie des Sciences ⓘ
surface form: French Academy of Sciences
name Paul Lévy self-link ⓘ
nationality French ⓘ
notableWork Calcul des probabilités ⓘ
Processus stochastiques et mouvement brownien ⓘ
Limit Laws for Sums of Independent Random Variables ⓘ
surface form: Théorie de l’addition des variables aléatoires
occupation engineer ⓘ
professor ⓘ
placeOfBirth Paris ⓘ
religion Judaism ⓘ

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Laurent Schwartz → relative → Paul Lévy ⓘ
Paul Lévy → name → Paul Lévy self-link ⓘ
Marie-Hélène Lévy → father → Paul Lévy ⓘ
Marie-Hélène Lévy → notableFamilyMember → Paul Lévy ⓘ
Khinchin → namedAfter → Paul Lévy ⓘ
subject surface form: Khinchin–Lévy constant
Khinchin–Lévy constant → namedAfter → Paul Lévy ⓘ
Khinchin–Lévy constant → discoveredBy → Paul Lévy ⓘ