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Paul Lévy

1886 - 1971

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Paul Pierre Lévy (15 September 1886 – 15 December 1971) was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Lévy is the 273rd most popular mathematician (up from 439th in 2019), the 1,660th most popular biography from France (up from 3,016th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular French Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Paul Lévy ranks 273 out of 1,004. Before him are Kazimierz Kuratowski, Eduard Heine, Jean-Robert Argand, Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and Jabir ibn Aflah. After him are Seymour Papert, Robert Recorde, Lloyd Shapley, Israel Gelfand, Alan Baker, and Édouard Roche.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Paul Lévy ranks 58. Before him are Edward C. Tolman, Gottfried Benn, Willem Drees, Erich Fellgiebel, Gyula Gömbös, and Jisaburō Ozawa. After him are Hitoshi Imamura, Mary Wigman, Karl Korsch, Giovanni Battista Caproni, Raoul Hausmann, and Tsuguharu Foujita. Among people deceased in 1971, Paul Lévy ranks 43. Before him are Johannes Frießner, Roy O. Disney, Shigeyoshi Suzuki, Pier Angeli, W. O. Bentley, and Gregorio Pietro Agagianian. After him are Mathilde Kschessinska, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Diane Arbus, Raoul Hausmann, Van Heflin, and Heinz Lammerding.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Lévy ranks 1,660 out of 6,770. Before him are Antoine Baumé (1728), Guillaume de Lorris (1200), William III, Duke of Aquitaine (910), Charles Koechlin (1867), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), and Yves Congar (1904). After him are Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953), Alphonse Borrelly (1842), Alexandre Brongniart (1770), Henri Dutilleux (1916), David Trezeguet (1977), and César, Duke of Vendôme (1594).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Paul Lévy ranks 53. Before him are Antoine Augustin Cournot (1801), Pierre Varignon (1654), Michel Chasles (1793), Henri Cartan (1904), Charles-Eugène Delaunay (1816), and Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1735). After him are Édouard Roche (1820), Oronce Finé (1494), Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat (1923), Alain Connes (1947), Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (1797), and René-Louis Baire (1874).

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