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Bernstein’s training in and continuing contacts with Paris led him to combine analytical writing with the traditions of the St. Petersburg School in probability. Martingale differences appear in his work, and best known are his extensions of the Central Limit Theorem to weakly dependent random variables.
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Seneta, E. (2001). Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_73
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