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.