How Paul Lévy saw Jean Ville and martingales.
Borel, probability and .
An introduction to Karel Vorovka's philosophy of randomness. (Following by two translations from the Czech. Completed by the English translation of the following documents).
The splendors and miseries of martingales. Introduction to the June 2009 issue of the Electronic Journal for History of Probability and Statistics.
Commentary on Lévy's lecture notes to the Ecole Polytechnique (1919).
On a letter of Paul Lévy to Maurice Dumas.
The beginning of the French-Czechoslovakian relations, seen from the correspondence of Hostinský and Fréchet. (Le début des relations mathématiques franco-tchécoslovaques vu à travers la correspondance Hostinský-Fréchet.)
The axiomatic melting point. Teaching probability theory in Prague during the 1930's.
On the exchanges between Wolfgang Doeblin and Bohuslav Hostinský
We present the letters sent by Wolfgang Doeblin to Bohuslav Hostinský between 1936 and 1938. They concern some aspects of the general theory of Markov chains and the solutions of the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation that Doeblin was then establishing for his PhD thesis.
René Gateaux a cento anni dalla morte
The emergence of french probabilistic statistics. Borel and the Institut Henri Poincaré around the 1920s
This paper concerns the emergence of modern mathematical statistics in France after the First World War. Emile Borel’s achievements are presented, and especially his creation of two institutions where mathematical statistics was developed: the , (ISUP) in 1922 and above all the (IHP) in 1928. At the IHP, a new journal was created in 1931. We discuss the first papers in that journal dealing with mathematical statistics.
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