Timeline for Why did Voiculescu develop free probability?
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| Aug 2, 2017 at 21:19 | answer | added | Roland Speicher | timeline score: 13 | |
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 17:57 | answer | added | Carlo Beenakker | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 15:48 | answer | added | Marc Palm | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 15:46 | comment | added | Owen Sizemore | As for the first part... I don't have it in front of my but at the beginning of his book Free Random Variables I'm pretty sure that he says studying the free group factors (though I'm not sure if he says that solving the isomorphism problem per se) was the initial motivation, largely because, after the hyperfinite $II_1$ factor, this is the next natural (and historical) example. Also I have heard from other people that know more free probability than I do that to do this he spent years trying to calculate moments and this led him to think of freeness as an analog of independent. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 15:26 | history | asked | Valerio Capraro | CC BY-SA 3.0 |