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2 unusual facts about William Feller


Anderson Gray McKendrick

Some of this papers other results for stochastic models of epidemics and population growth were rediscovered by William Feller in 1939.

William Feller

His two-volume textbook on probability theory and its applications was called "the most successful treatise on probability ever written" by Gian-Carlo Rota.


Filip Lundberg

Cramér mentions later work by Andrey Kolmogorov and William Feller but it was Cramér himself who developed Lundberg's ideas on risk and linked them to the emerging theory of stochastic processes.


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