Biography:Harold Silverstone
Harold Silverstone | |
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| Born | Harold Silverstone 20 January 1915[1] Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1] |
| Died | 1974[1] Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1] |
| Nationality | New Zealand |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander Aitken |
Harold Silverstone (1915 – 1974) was a New Zealand mathematician and statistician.
Early life and education
He was born on 20 January 1915 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. His father Mark Woolf Silverstone was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Harold Silverstone was educated at Otago Boys High School. He later attended the University of Otago where he attained a B.A. in 1934 and an M.A. in 1935. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1939.[2][3]
Academic career
He was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the Otago University in 1946. He was appointed as the Statistician to the New Zealand National Service Department in 1940.[3]
Contributions to mathematics
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound.[4][5][6]
Personal life
He was married twice, once to Madge Silverstone and another time to Eleanor Matilda Silverstone.[1]
He was a lifelong member of the New Zealand Communist Party.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Harold Silverstone". https://www.geni.com/people/Harold-Silverstone/6000000015616048635.
- ↑ "UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO GRADUATION CEREMONY". 13 May 1936. https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ODT19360513.2.37?items_per_page=100&page=88&query=eric+cecil&sort_by=byPU.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand" (PDF). https://www.stats.org.nz/app/uploads/2018/07/A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand.pdf.
- ↑ "Two New Zealand pioneer econometricians" (PDF). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227357098_Two_New_Zealand_pioneer_econometricians.
- ↑ Aitken, A. C.; Silverstone, H. (1942). "On the Estimation of Statistical Parameters". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 61 (2): 186–194. doi:10.1017/s008045410000618x.
- ↑ Shenton, L. R. (1970). "The so-called Cramer–Rao inequality". The American Statistician 24 (2): 36.
- ↑ "1.a - New Zealand Communist Party, Harold Silverstone resignation., 1957 - 1958 | ArchivesSpace Public Interface". https://archives.library.auckland.ac.nz/repositories/2/archival_objects/473.
External links
- Applications: Harold Silverstone: A Perspective
- https://www.stats.org.nz/app/uploads/2018/07/A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand.pdf
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