Mathematician:Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Italian mathematician best known for his work in probability theory, and for the Borel-Cantelli Lemma. Note: his name is sometimes reported as Fracessco Cantelli. Clarification is needed as to which is correct.

Nationality
Italian

History

 * Born: 20 Dec 1875, Palermo, Sicily, Italy
 * Died: 21 July 1966, Rome, Italy

Theorems and Definitions

 * Borel-Cantelli Lemma (with Émile Borel)
 * Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem (with Valery Ivanovich Glivenko)

Books and Papers

 * 1900: Sulla parentesi di Lagrange con applicazione al moto perturbato dei pianeti
 * 1905: Sui fondamenti del calcolo delle probabilità
 * 1910: Intorno ad un teorema fondamentale della teoria del rischio (in which the Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality is generalized)
 * 1914: Genesi e costruzione delle travole di mutalità
 * 1916: Sulla legge dei grandi numeri (On the law of large numbers)
 * 1916: La tendenza a un limite nel senso del calcolo delle probabilità (Convergence to a limit in the sense of the calculus of probabilities)
 * 1917: Sulla probabilità comme limite di frequenza (On probability seen as a limit of frequencies)
 * 1917: Su due applicazioni di un teorema di G Boole alla statistica matematica (On two applications of a Boole's theorem to mathematical statistics)