Jerzy Neyman
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Jerzy Neyman (born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, April 16, 1894, in Bendery, Moldova – August 5, 1981, in Oakland, California) was a Polish mathematician. He was the second of four children of Czesław Spława-Neyman and Kazimiera Lutosławska.
He began studies at Kharkov University in 1912. He was taught by Russian probabilist Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. After he read 'Lessons on the integration and the research of the primitive functions' (Leçons sur l'intégration et la recherche des fonctions primitives) by Henri Lebesgue, he was fascinated with measure and integration.
For Doctor of Philosophy degree, at University of Warsaw in 1924, he was examined among others by Wacław Sierpiński and Stefan Mazurkiewicz, both working in Cipher Bureau.
He has published many books dealing with experiments and statistics. He devised the way which the FDA tests medicines today.
He introduced confidence interval in his paper in 1934.
Parts of his work was the Neyman-Pearson lemma.
His paper "On the Two Different Aspects of the Representative Method: The Method of Stratified Sampling and the Method of Purposive Selection" given at the Royal Statistical Society on 19 June 1934 was the groundbreaking event leading to modern scientific sampling.
[edit] External links
- O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Jerzy Neyman". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.
- ASA article by Chin Long Chiang
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