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Jerzy Neyman was a mathematician, philosopher, statistician, and university teacher. He worked in the fields of mathematical statistics, mathematics, and statistics. His notable work includes the Neyman–Pearson lemma. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Wilks Memorial Award, and the National Medal of Science. Neyman was a member of the Royal Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Polish Academy of Sciences, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Born in Bender in 1894, he held citizenship in Poland and the United States. He was educated at the University of Warsaw, the National University of Kharkiv, University College London, and the University of Paris. His doctoral advisor was Wacław Sierpiński. Neyman earned a Doctor of Philosophy and a habilitation. He taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University College London, the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, and the Polish Academy of Sciences. He died in Oakland in 1981.
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Vinony files it under 1894 births, 1981 deaths and 20th-century American philosophers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1894/04/16
- Died
- 1981/08/05
- Works
- 39
Top works
- ネイマン統計学
- Proceedings
- Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
- Proceedings of the Fourth Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability
- Vvodnyĭ kurs teorii veroi͡atnosteĭ i matematicheskoĭ statistiki
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jerzy
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bender
- Place of death
- Oakland
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Paris
- Languages spoken
- Polish
- Academic degree
- habilitation
- Doctoral advisor
- Wacław Sierpiński
- Image
- Jerzy Neyman2.jpg
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- member of
- Econometric Society
- date of birth
- 1894-04-16
- date of death
- 1981-08-05
- Commons category
- Jerzy Spława-Neyman
- name in native language
- Jerzy Neyman
- pseudonym
- Yuri Czeslawovich
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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