The Random Walk Path of Pál Révész in Probability

Dear Colleagues,

Pál Révész, the world-renowned Hungarian probability theorist, passed away in 2022—he had been an extremely prolific mathematician, with 200 research papers and four books under his belt. A graduate of Eötvös Lóránd University, Révész spent decades as the head of the Probability Department of the Rényi Institute, before heading the Department of Statistics and Probability of the Vienna University of Technology. Additionally, he had been a visiting professor at numerous schools across Europe and Canada.

In 1982, he was selected to become a member of the Hungarian Academy and served as the president of the Bernoulli Society of Mathematical Statistics and Probability from 1983 to 1985, ultimately becoming a member of the Academy Europaea in 1991.

His groundbreaking work in many areas of probability theory are best reflected in the titles of his influential books: Laws of large numbers (1968), Strong approximation in Probability and Statistics (1981, together with Miklós Csörgő), Random Walks of Infinitely Many Particles (1990), and Random walk in Random and Non-Random Environments (1994, 2005, 2013).

As a person, he was beyond generous in his collaborations, always happy to talk about the problems he was working on. He listened with the same respect and curiosity whether talking to a famous professor or an eager student, and he loved being able to help a new generation of mathematicians.

Beyond mathematics, he loved classical music, long walks, and the company of friends, but he admitted that during the concerts and the long walks he was still working on mathematics in his head.

In this volume we seek to gather together the papers of his coworkers, friends, and colleagues to commemorate his life and his everlasting impact on probability theory. Submissions from people working on random walk topics, who feel that their research was influenced by the work of Pál Révész, are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Antónia Földes
Prof. Dr. Endre Csáki
Guest Editors

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• laws of large numbers
• random walk
• Wiener process
• strong approximation of the random walks and its local time
• anisotropic walk

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