Alexandr A. Chuprov: Life, Work, Correspondence

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-3-89971-812-6
Verlag: V&R unipress

Buch, Deutsch, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

The biography and correspondence of Chuprov are additionally based on many archival sources and newspaper articles and his work is critically described. Becoming a mathematician, he nevertheless stressed the ties between statistics, logic and philosophy without due regards to mathematics. Then, mostly due to his long correspondence with Markov, he became mathematically oriented. Without abandoning statistics or its applications, he had been partly successful in uniting the Biometric school and the Continental direction of statistics. Nowadays, Chuprov is largely forgotten, to a large extent because the history of statistics in general is mostly neglected.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheynin, Oscar

Strecker, Heinrich

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik

Leseproben

The book is essentially based on previously unknown archival sources and newspaper articles. Chuprov (1874–1926) is shown as a scientist with a broad field of interests (statistics with various applications including natural sciences, mathematical statistics, economics, burning social issues). His particular findings in mathematial statistics are described and also his efforts, partly successful, of uniting the Continental direction of statistics and the Biometric school into a single mathematical statistics. For the first time Chuprov`s life in emigration (mostly in Germany) is described in detail. He was recognized by the scientific community, elected Honourable Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and worshiped by Russian statisticans, but up to ca. 1958 Soviet officialdom labelled him an ideological enemy.>

Über Autor(innen)

Sheynin, Oscar
Dr. Oscar Sheynin was born in Moscow in 1925. He has worked in Russia as an editor and lecturer in academic institutions.

Strecker, Heinrich
Dr. Heinrich Strecker ist emeritierter Professor für Statistik und Mathematik in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften. Er ist Ehrenmitglied der Deutschen Statistischen Gesellschaft.

Dr. Oscar Sheynin was born in Moscow in 1925. He has worked in Russia as an editor and lecturer in academic institutions.