Masatoshi Fukushima: SelectaProfessor Masatoshi Fukushima is one of the most influential probabilists of our times. His fundamental work on Dirichlet forms and Markov processes made Hilbert space methods a tool in stochastic analysis and by this he opened the way to several new developments. His impact on a new generation of probabilists in his native country as well as in many other countries can hardly be overstated.

In publishing a selection of his seminal papers we aim to serve the community, and at the same time we want to express our appreciation of a highly respected, humane scholar.