Paul Lévy (mathematician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Paul Lévy (mathematician)

French mathematician

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1886

Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France

Date of Death: 15-Dec-1971

Profession: engineer, mathematician

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Paul Pierre Lévy (15 September 1886 – 15 December 1971) was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions.
Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him.