Speaker
Georg Lindgren
Description
I will describe some crucial steps in the history of Swedish
mathematical statistics, starting with the first timid steps at the
beginning of the twentieth century, finishing with Carl Gustav Esseen's
almost 20 years as professor at the Royal Institute of Technology,
1949-1967. I will illustrate the great influence he had on developing
technologies as examples of the necessary but delicate relations between
different sciences and personalities.
The talk is based on the article ``Why distinguish between statistics
and mathematical statistics -- the case of Swedish academia'',
International Statistical Review, (2018), by Peter Guttorp and myself.
