love it when the nytimes journalist just runs with the nonsense about 20th century history spouted by the mathematicians he interviewshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/science/abel-prize-mathematics.html …
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@kchangnyt next time you need someone to fact-check your history of probability (or your history of major math prizes -- though fewer howlers in your article on that score), look me upShow this thread
Not sure what you're complaining about. Furstenberg's and Margulis's work obviously is not probability theory.
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then what was the point of that section from Labourie completely misrepresenting the place of probability in mid-20th century math?
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if you meant that as context for using probabilistic methods in dynamical systems, that's an approach with a rich earlier tradition dating at least to Poincaré in the late 19th century https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~david.aubin/publis/2002a.pdf …
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