Statisticians of the Centuries
Author | : C.C. Heyde |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2001-08-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 0387952837 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780387952833 |
Rating | : 4/5 (833 Downloads) |
Download or read book Statisticians of the Centuries written by C.C. Heyde and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2001-08-09 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading statisticians and probabilists, this volume consists of 104 biographical articles on eminent contributors to statistical and probabilistic ideas born prior to the 20th Century. Among the statisticians covered are Fermat, Pascal, Huygens, Neumann, Bernoulli, Bayes, Laplace, Legendre, Gauss, Poisson, Pareto, Markov, Bachelier, Borel, and many more.