Paul L%C3%A9vy (mathematician)

Paul Pierre Lvy was a French Jewish mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing martingale and Lvy flight. Lvy processes, Lvy measures, Lvys constant, the Lvy distribution, the Lvy skew alphastable distribution, the Lvy area, the Lvy arcsine law, and the nonfractal Lvy C curve are also named after him.

Lvy was born in Paris, the son of Lucien Lvy, an examiner at the cole Polytechnique. Lvy also attended the cole Polytechnique and published his first paper in 1905, at the age of nineteen, while still an undergraduate. His teacher and advisor was Jacques Hadamard. After graduation he spent a year in military service and then studied for three years at the cole des Mines, where he became a professor in 1913.

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