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Sylvie MÉLÉARD: École normale supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses alumnus - Associate Professor of Mathematics - Professor of Mathematics, University of Paris 10 Habilitation to direct research in Probability
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The object of probability theory is the mathematical analysis of phenomena in which chance intervenes. These phenomena are called random phenomena.
A phenomenon is said to be random if, reproduced many times under identical conditions, it unfolds differently each time, so that the result of the experiment changes unpredictably from one time to the next.
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