View source for Mathwar/Levy Paul

=Paul Lévy=
----

Paul Lévy (* September 15th 1886, † December 15th 1971)

----

==Life==

Lévy was born in Paris, the son of Lucien Lévy, an Examiner at the École Polytechnique. Lévy also attended the École Polytechnique and published his first paper in 1905 at the age of 19, while still an undergraduate. His teacher and advisor was Jacques Hadamard. After graduation he spent a year in military service and then studied for three years at the École des Mines, where he became a professor in 1913.

During World War I Lévy conducted mathematical analysis work for the French artillery. In 1920 he was appointed Professor of Analysis at the École Polytechnique, where his students included Benoît Mandelbrot. He remained at the École Polytechnique until his retirement in 1959.

Left Paris 1942, hiding in Lyon and Macon.

----
==Sources==

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Pierre_L%C3%A9vy Wikipedia]

[http://www.stochastik.uni-freiburg.de/bfsweb/LBachelier/bachelier_kap1.pdf PDF Bachelier and his Times: A Conversation with Bernard Bru]