Bruno de Finetti
Bruno De Finetti | |
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Politecnico di Milano | |
Known for | De Finetti's theorem |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Italian National Institute of Statistics Assicurazioni Generali University of Trieste University of Padua Sapienza University of Rome |
Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian
Life
De Finetti was born in
He published extensively (17 papers in 1930 alone, according to Lindley) and acquired an international reputation in the small world of probability mathematicians. He taught
De Finetti only became known in the Anglo-American statistical world in the 1950s when
Work and impact
De Finetti emphasized a
De Finetti is also noted for de Finetti's theorem on exchangeable sequences of random variables. De Finetti was not the first to study exchangeability, but he brought the subject to greater visibility. He started publishing on exchangeability in the late 1920s, but the 1937 article[citation needed] is his most famous treatment.
In 1929, de Finetti introduced the concept of
He also introduced de Finetti diagrams for graphing genotype frequencies.
The 1974 English translation of his book is credited with reviving interest in predictive inference in the Anglophone world and bringing the idea of exchangeability to its attention.[6]
In 1961 he was elected as a
In the 21st century quantum extensions of de Finetti's representation theorem have been found to be useful in quantum information,[8][9][10] in topics like quantum key distribution[11] and entanglement detection.[12]
Bibliography
See Works on
de Finetti in English
(The following are translations of works originally published in Italian or French.)
- "Probabilism: A Critical Essay on the Theory of Probability and on the Value of Science," (translation of 1931 article) in Erkenntnis, volume 31, issue 2–3, September 1989, pp. 169–223. The entire double issue is devoted to de Finetti's philosophy of probability.
- 1937, "La Prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives," Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré,
- - "Foresight: its Logical Laws, Its Subjective Sources," (translation of the 1937 article in French) in H. E. Kyburg and H. E. Smokler (eds), Studies in Subjective Probability, New York: Wiley, 1964.
- Theory of Probability, (translation by A Machi and AFM Smithof 1970 book) 2 volumes, New York: Wiley, 1974–1975.
Discussions
- Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 149, p. 252 (1986).
The following books have a chapter on de Finetti and references to further literature.
- Jan von Plato, Creating Modern Probability: Its Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994
- Donald Gillies, Philosophical Theories of Probability, London: Routledge, 2000.
See also
- Coherence (philosophical gambling strategy)
- De Finetti diagram
- De Finetti's theorem
- Exchangeability
- Infinitely divisible probability distributions
- Predictive inference
- Quasiconvex function
References
- ^ "La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives", Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 7, 1–68.
- ^ a b "Guide to the Bruno De Finetti Papers, 1924–2000 ASP.1992.01". Digital Pitt. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ISBN 1-4020-0223-8.
- ^ A Conversation with Eugenio Ragazzini, Statistical Science, 2011.
- S2CID 53383544.
- ISBN 0-412-03471-9.
- ^ View/Search Fellows of the ASA Archived 2016-06-16 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2016-07-23.
- S2CID 17416262.
- ^ J. Baez (2007). "This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 251)". Retrieved 29 April 2012.
- S2CID 1772280.
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- S2CID 44241800.
External links
- Probabilità e induzione, Bologna, 1993. (in Italian)
- Bruno de Finetti website
- Generate finetti diagrams online
- MacTutor: Bruno de Finetti
- Bruno de Finetti's Papers [1](Bruno de Finetti Papers, 1924–2000, ASP.1992.01, Archives of Scientific Philosophy, Special Collections Department, University of Pittsburgh)
- De Finetti on the Portraits of Statisticians page.
- Interpretations of Probability from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. De Finetti's views are discussed in Section 3.5 of this article.
- Bruno de Finetti e la geometria del benessere by Rosaria Adriani (in Italian)