Why are Gaussian measures seen as the standard measure for infinite dimensional spaces?

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I'm learning about infinite dimensional probability, and most resources I've consulted so far motivate things by saying there is no infinite dimensional Lebesgue/translation invariant measure that gives nontrivial measures for unit balls in a Banach space. The proposed alternative is almost always to look Gaussian measures instead. Why are they seen as the standard alternative to Lebesgue measure when doing probability in infinite dimensions?