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Francesco Paolo Cantelli
Author(s) -
Benzi Margherita,
Benzi Michele,
Seneta Eugene
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
international statistical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.051
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1751-5823
pISSN - 0306-7734
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2007.00009.x
Subject(s) - lemma (botany) , mathematics , probabilistic logic , mathematical economics , discrete mathematics , statistics , ecology , poaceae , biology
Summary Francesco Paolo Cantelli made fundamental contributions to the foundations of probability theory and to the clarification of different types of probabilistic convergence. He is remembered through the Borel–Cantelli Lemma, the Glivenko–Cantelli Theorem, and Cantelli's Inequality. He also made seminal contributions to actuarial science.