Athanasios Papoulis

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Athanasios Papoulis

Athanasios Papoulis (1921 - April 25 2002) was a Greek American engineer and applied mathematician. He was born in Greece in 1921 and graduated from National Technical University of Athens.

He contributed in the areas of signal processing, communications, and signal and system theory. His classic book Probability Random Variables and Stochastic Processes is used as a textbook in many graduate-level probability courses in electrical engineering departments all over the world. The book is widely used due to its balance between rigor and intuition. Hence, by staying away from complete mathematical rigor while emphasizing the physical and engineering interpretations of probability, his book gained wide popularity.

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