What is the origin of the word filtration in measure theory? What is the mental image that motivated this wording? What inspired this wording outside of the mathematical world?
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1My guess would be that it comes from the idea of filtering a signal from noise, but I don't have anything to back that up. – user6247850 Oct 25 '23 at 14:55
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How about a reference where the term "filtration" is used in measure theory (as opposed to probability theory). – GEdgar Oct 25 '23 at 15:50
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Does this answer the question ? https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.0622. – Kurt G. Oct 25 '23 at 16:22