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
For the kind of work that I’m doing, we need something that is more like a probability theory, where you’re not just measuring a number for each data point.
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
In probability theory, an event is a set of outcomes of an experiment.
From Textbooks • Sep. 23, 2020
Two Theoretical Results A large part of the attraction of probability theory is the immediacy and intuitive appeal of its practical problems and of the simple principles which enable us to solve many of them.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
