Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Francesco Paolo Cantelli ( born December 20, 1875 in Palermo, † July 21, 1966 in Rome) was an Italian mathematician. He is best known for the Borel - Cantelli lemma from probability theory. He also developed, as well as Valeri Ivanovich Gliwenko, the Gliwenko - Cantelli theorem and proved a version of the strong law of large numbers.

Cantelli studied in Palermo mathematics and wrote his thesis in 1899 on perturbation theory of planets in celestial mechanics. He was a math teacher at high schools and incidentally employs in Palermo at the observatory. He dealt with the statistical analysis of data and turned to the theory of probability to. In 1903, he was an actuary at Istituti di Previdenza and later founder of the Italian Istituto Italiano degli Attuari Actuarial Association, and editor of the important Actuary magazine Giornale Italiano degli dell'Istituto Attuari. In 1923 he returned to the University as a professor of actuarial science with the stations Catania, Naples ( from 1925 ) and Rome (from 1931). He remained a professor in Rome until his retirement in 1951.