Jerzy Neiman ( born Jerzy Spława-Neyman , at birth Yuri Cheslavovich Neiman ; April 16, 1894 , Bender , Bessarabian province , Russian Empire - August 5, 1981 [4] , Auckland , California , USA ) - Polish and American mathematician and statistician.
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| Scientific field | maths |
| Place of work | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | University of Warsaw |
| Academic degree | ( 1924 ) and ( 1927 ) |
| supervisor | Vaclav Sierpinski |
| Famous students | George Danzig |
| Awards and prizes |  Guggenheim Scholarship |
Member of the US National Academy of Sciences (1963) [5] .
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Awards
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
Biography
Yuri Neumann was born in the county-based Bessarabian city of Bender in a Polish Catholic family, the son of C. G. Neumann (1852-1906), a folklorist, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist.
In 1909 he graduated from Kamyanets-Podilsky Grammar School . He studied at Kharkov University . Graduated from Warsaw University (1923). In 1923-1934 he taught at the Warsaw and Krakow universities, University College London . In 1927 he organized a biometrics laboratory in Warsaw. Since 1938 - Professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
The main works are devoted to statistics and probability theory. Developed (since 1930) the so-called behaviorist statistics (decision-making methodology under uncertainty), which has found many applications in scientific research in astronomy , physics , biology , medicine - wherever it is necessary to reduce the error rate. During World War II, he worked on bomber sights and guidance problems [6] .
Rewards
- Guggenheim Scholarship (1957) [7]
- US National Science Medal (1968)
- (1968)
- Messenger Lectures (1971)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Archive for the history of mathematics MacTyutor
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France
- ↑ Jerzy Neyman
- ↑ Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981 ) . www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. Date of appeal April 14, 2019.
- ↑ Jerzy Neyman . John Simon Guggenheim Foundation . gf.org. Date of appeal April 14, 2019.
Literature
- Bogolyubov A.N. Mathematics and Mechanics: Biographical Reference. - Kiev: Naukova Dumka, 1983 .-- S. 343.
- Mathematical Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ch. ed. Yu. V. Prokhorov. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia, 1988 .-- S. 728.