probability theory
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“Talagrand is an exceptionally prolific mathematician whose work has transformed probability theory, functional analysis and statistics,” the academy said in its award citation.
From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024
“Anthropologists, sociologists, historians and psychologists, as well as those working on probability theory and physics, took him to have important insights for their disciplines.”
From New York Times • May 28, 2023
This direction of developing probability theory for more complicated structures than numbers is an example.
From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2022
Lizza’s mother, Oksana, a professor of probability theory and statistical mathematics at Pryazovskyi State Technical University, didn’t want to leave without her own parents, who lived in another neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2022
It is not difficult to show this using a tool from probability theory called an expectation, which is a measure of how much we expect each envelope to be worth.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
