Historical Notes

• Xavier Fernique (1934-2020)  [Xavier Fernique (1934-2020) Gazette des mathématiciens 167 (2021)]

• γ_2 and Γ_2  in honour of D. Bakry and M. Talagrand (2015)

• The Herbst argument (the unpublished 1975 letter of I. Herbst to L. Gross - courtesy of Professor L. Gross)

• “More than fifteen proofs of the logarithmic Sobolev inequality” (2015)

• Proofs of the Gaussian isoperimetric inequality (as of 2017)

• Curvature-Dimension (2020)

• Why is the law of the iterated logarithm in Banach space at the origin of the development of new concentration inequalities for independent random variables (2020)

 

Miscellaneous Notes

• Four Talagrand inequalities under the same umbrella (2019)

• Stein’s inequality for multivariate Gaussian (2019)

• Differentials of entropy and Fisher information along heat flow: a brief review of some conjectures (2020)

• Tail inequalities for the eigenvalues of the GUE and related models: some results and questions  (2021)

 

 

Sète (France) 2015