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.
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]
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]
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound. [4] [5] [6]
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]
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.
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]
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]
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound. [4] [5] [6]
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]