Guido Castelnuovo, pioneer of the theory and applications of probability in Italy

Abstract

We describe the work of Guido Castelnuovo (1865-1952) in the theory of probability and its applications to statistics and physics.

Keywords

• castelnuovo
• empirical law of chance
• kinetic theory of gases and maxwell law
• law of (a vector of ) errors of observation
• problem of moments
• second limit-theorem
• theory of dispersion