Harold Silverstone (1915–1974) was a New Zealand mathematician and statistician.
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 |
Early life and education edit
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 edit
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 edit
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound.[4][5][6]
Personal life edit
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 edit
- ^ a b c d e "Harold Silverstone". geni_family_tree.
- ^ "UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO GRADUATION CEREMONY". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 13 May 1936. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- ^ a b "A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand" (PDF). www.stats.org.nz. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- ^ "Two New Zealand pioneer econometricians" (PDF). www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
- ^ 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. S2CID 124029876.
- ^ Shenton, L. R. (1970). "The so-called Cramer–Rao inequality". The American Statistician. 24 (2): 36. JSTOR 2681931.
- ^ "1.a - New Zealand Communist Party, Harold Silverstone resignation., 1957 - 1958 | ArchivesSpace Public Interface". archives.library.auckland.ac.nz.