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"Signed, sealed, and delivered," by Marcus Chown. New Scientist, 14 July 2001, pages 46-47.
This article tells the story of Wolfgang Doeblin, German-born Jewish mathematician who fled to France to escape the Nazis in 1936. At age 23, while serving in the French army, he made some extraordinary mathematical discoveries about random phenomena. These ideas became known to the world only in the 1950s, when they were discovered independently by the Japanese mathematician Kiyoshi Ito. Doeblin scribbled his ideas in a school exercise book, which after his death in the war was filed in a sealed envelope at the French Academy of Sciences. The envelope was finally opened in May 2000 by Doeblin's brother.
--- Allyn Jackson
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