Francesco Paolo Cantelli

Francesco Paolo Cantelli made fundamental contributions to the foundations of probability theory and to the clarification of different types of probabilistic convergence. He is remembered through the Borel-Cantelli Lemma, the Glivenko-Cantelli Theorem, and Cantelli's Inequality. He also made seminal contributions to actuarial science. Copyright 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation (c) 2007 International Statistical Institute.