Special Math Colloquium

Wolfgang Doeblin, a mathematician rediscovered

Wolfgang Doeblin was a promising young probabilist who died at 25 during World War II. While at the front, Doeblin sent a manuscript to the French Academy of Sciences which remained unread until 2000. In it, Doeblin anticipated prominent later work of the Japanese mathematician Ito. A two-part film (with a short intermission) will be shown about Doeblin's life and mathematics. The first part will be an hour long and broadly accessible. In the second part of the film, the French mathematician Marc Yor will explain Doeblin's manuscript "On Kolmogorov's equation" for about a half hour. The second part is  meant for those with a good background in probability.

Comments:

• Refreshments at 3:00 in MSB118
• The event is cosponsored by the Statistics Department