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There are multiple books about ways to characterize the normal distribution. For instance, Bryc’s book starts with Herschel-Maxwell’s theorem:

If $X$ and $Y$ are independent variables whose joint distribution is rotationally invariant, then $X$ and $Y$ are both normal.

He immediately notes that one can strengthen this to Polya’s theorem:

If $X$ and $Y$ are independent variables, and rotations of $\pi/4$ and $\pi/2$ leave the distribution of $X$ invariant, then $X$ and $Y$ are both normal.

Perhaps somewhere in such books you’ll find a characterization that avoids moments but is number-theoretically tractable.

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