Bruno de Finetti

Bruno De Finetti
Born(1906-06-13)13 June 1906
Died20 July 1985(1985-07-20) (aged 79)
Rome, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materPolitecnico di Milano
Known forDe Finetti diagram
De Finetti's theorem
Kolmogorov–Nagumo–de Finetti mean
Dutch book theorems
Infinite divisibility
Mean-variance analysis
Predictive inference
AwardsICM Speaker (1928)
Scientific career
InstitutionsItalian National Institute of Statistics
Assicurazioni Generali
University of Trieste
University of Padua
Sapienza University of Rome

Bruno de Finetti (13 June 1906 – 20 July 1985) was an Italian probabilist statistician and actuary, noted for the "operational subjective" conception of probability. The classic exposition of his distinctive theory is the 1937 "La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives",[1] which discussed probability founded on the coherence of betting odds and the consequences of exchangeability.

  1. ^ "La prévision: ses lois logiques, ses sources subjectives", Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincaré, 7, 1–68.