Article ID: CBB001021432

Loève through His Letters with Lévy, Fréchet and Neyman (2010)

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Simon, Marielle (Author)


Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Volume: 6, no. 1
Issue: 1


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: http://www.jehps.net/juin2010/Simon.pdf (Accessed on December 1, 2010)
Language: English

Inthispaper,welookatthepostWorldWarIIimmigrationandjourneyofafamousmathematiciantotheUnitedStates.MichelLoève,originallyfromPales-tine,wasaprobabilistwhostudiedmathematicsattheUniversitédeParisunderPaulLévy.HeendedhiscarrierintheDepartmentofStatisticsatBerkeley,withmanyotherforeignmathematicians.BeforeandafterhisdeparturefromFrance,heexchangedmanyletterswithcontemporaryprobabilists,amongthemPaulLévy,MauriceFréchetandJerzyNeyman.WegiveaninsightintoLoève'slifethroughthesethreecorrespondences.

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Authors & Contributors
Mazliak, Laurent
Taylor, Angus E.
Šišma, Pavel
Willem, Michel
Wang, Quanlai
Tapp, Christian
Journals
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Science and Education
Mathematische Semesterberichte
Publishers
Springer-Verlag
Oxford University Press
Franz Steiner Verlag
Concepts
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Correspondence and corresponding
Set theory
Topology
Mathematicians
People
Fréchet, Maurice René
Lévy, Paul
Borel, Felix Édouard Émile
Fisher, Ronald Aylmer
Ville, Jean-André
Neyman, Jerzy
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
17th century
Places
France
Prague (Czechia)
Brno (Czech Republic)
Germany
British Isles
Institutions
Brno University
International Institute of Statistics
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