Overview
- First book project where selected works of Feller are published
- Scholarly comments on Feller’s work and impact, including a scientific Biography and a complete Bibliography
- About 100 pages of translations of seminal papers (originally written in German)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (43 chapters)
Keywords
- 01A75, 60G05, 60F05, 60E07, 60J35, 60K05, 47D07
- Feller-Busemann curvature
- Markov process
- birth-and-death process
- boundary theory
- central limit theorem
- diffusion process
- infinitesimal generator
- jump process
- law of large numbers
- law of the iterated logarithm
- mathematical biology
- operator semigroup
- regular variation
- scale function
- speed measure
- transition semigroup
About this book
This extensive selection of William Feller’s scientific papers shows the breadth of his oeuvre as well as the historical development of his scientific interests. Six seminal papers – originally written in German – on the central limit theorem, the law of large numbers, the foundations of probability theory, stochastic processes and mathematical biology are now, for the first time, available in English. The material is accompanied by detailed scholarly comments on Feller’s work and its impact, a complete bibliography, a list of his PhD students as well as a biographic sketch of his life with a sample of pictures from Feller’s family album.
William Feller was one of the leading mathematicians in the development of probability theory in the 20th century. His work continues to be highly influential, in particular in the theory of stochastic processes, limit theorems and applications of mathematics to biology. These volumes will be of value to all those interested in probability t
heory, analysis, mathematical biology and the history of mathematics.Reviews
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Selected Papers I
Authors: William Feller
Editors: Rene L. Schilling, Zoran Vondracek, Wojbor A. Woyczynski
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16859-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-16858-6Published: 19 June 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 820
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, Operator Theory, History of Mathematical Sciences, Statistics, general, Differential Geometry