List of mathematical probabilists

rdf:langString List of mathematical probabilists

rdf:langString 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 (1924–2014) * Robert J. Elliott (born 1940) * Paul Erdős (1913–1996) * Alison Etheridge (born 1964) * Steve Evans (born 1960) * William Feller (1906–1970) * Bruno de Finetti (1906–1985) - Italian probabilist and statistician * Geoffrey Grimmett (born 1950) * Alice Guionnet (born 1969) * Ian Hacking (born 1936) * Paul Halmos (1916–2006) * Joseph Halpern (born 1953) * David Heath (c.1943–2011) * Wassily Hoeffding (1914–1991) * Kiyoshi Itô (1915–2008) * Jean Jacod (1944–) * Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922–1998) * Mark Kac (1914–1984) * Olav Kallenberg (born 1939) * Rudolf E. Kálmán (1930–2016) * Samuel Karlin (1924–2007) * David George Kendall (1918–2007) * Richard Kenyon (born 1964) - Yale University * Harry Kesten (1931–2019) * John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) - best known for his pioneering work in economics * Aleksandr Khinchin (1894–1959) * Andrey Kolmogorov (1903–1987) * Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749–1827) * Gregory Lawler (born 1955) * Lucien Le Cam (1924–2000) * Jean-François Le Gall (born 1959) * Paul Lévy (1886–1971) * Jarl Waldemar Lindeberg (1876–1932) * Andrey Markov (1856–1922) * Stefan Mazurkiewicz (1888–1945) * Henry McKean (born 1930) * Paul-André Meyer (1934–2003) * Richard von Mises (1883–1953) * Abraham de Moivre (1667–1754) * Octav Onicescu (1892–1983) * K. R. Parthasarathy (born 1936) * Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) * Charles E. M. Pearce (1940–2012) * Judea Pearl (born 1936) * Yuval Peres (born 1963) * Edwin A. Perkins (born 1953) * Siméon Denis Poisson (1781–1840) * Yuri Vasilevich Prokhorov (1929–2013) * Frank P. Ramsey (1903–1930) * Alfréd Rényi (1921–1970) * Oded Schramm (1961–2008) * Romano Scozzafava (born 1935) * Scott Sheffield (born 1973) * Albert Shiryaev (born 1934) * Yakov Sinai (born 1935) * Ray Solomonoff (1926–2009) * Frank Spitzer (1926–1992) * Ruslan L. Stratonovich (1930–1997) * Daniel W. Stroock (born 1940) * Tibor Szele (1918–1955) * Alain-Sol Sznitman (born 1955) * Michel Talagrand (born 1952) * Heinrich Emil Timerding (1873–1945) * Andrei Toom (born 1942) * S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (born 1940) - 2007 Abel Prize laureate * Bálint Virág (born 1973) * Wendelin Werner (born 1968) * Norbert Wiener (1894–1964) * David Williams * Ofer Zeitouni (born 1960) - Weizmann Institute * Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) - one of the giants among twentieth-century philosophers (best known for confirmation probability) * Harold Jeffreys (1891–1989) - one of the giants within Bayesian statistics school * Richard Jeffrey (1926–2002) - best known for the philosophy of radical probabilism and Jeffrey conditioning * Terence Tao (born 1975) * Richard M. Dudley (1938–2020) * William Timothy Gowers (born 1963) * Bálint Tóth (born 1955)