Paul Lévy
French mathematician
Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Wikipedia
Born: September 15, 1886, Paris, France
Died: December 15, 1971 (age 85 years), Paris, France
Notable students: Benoit Mandelbrot, Wolfgang Doeblin, Georges Matheron, and more
Academic advisors: Jacques Hadamard and Vito Volterra
Children: Marie-Hélène Schwartz
Parents: Lucien Levy