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17–18 Sept 2018
Uppsala University
Europe/Stockholm timezone

The unexpected influence of a mathematician - on engineering - and on statistics

18 Sept 2018, 13:55
50m

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.

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