# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/paul-pierre-levy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T03:23:13.412Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/paul-pierre-levy"
name: "Paul Pierre Lévy"
slug: "paul-pierre-levy"
description: "Paul Pierre Lévy was a French mathematician who was active especially in probability theory, introducing fundamental concepts such as local time, stable distributions and characteristic functions. Lévy processes, Lévy flights, Lévy measures, Lévy's constant, the Lévy distribution, the Lévy area, the Lévy arcsine law, and the fractal Lévy C curve are named after him."
tagline: "French mathematician (1886–1971)"
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country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
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birthDate: "1886-09-15"
deathDate: "1971-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump