Mathematician:Danie Gerhardus Krige

Mathematician

South African statistician and mining engineer who pioneered the field of geostatistics.

Nationality

South African

History

• Born: 26 August 1919 in Bothaville, Orange Free State, South Africa
• Died: 3 March 2013 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Theorems and Definitions

• Kriging

Definitions of concepts named for Danie Gerhardus Krige can be found here.

Publications

• 1951: A statistical approach to some basic mine valuation problems on the Witwatersrand

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Danie Gerhardus Krige": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive