Mathematician:Carl Harald Cramér
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Mathematician
Swedish mathematician, actuary, and statistician, specializing in mathematical statistics and probabilistic number theory.
Close friends with Godfrey Harold Hardy.
Nationality
Swedish
History
- Born: 25 September 1893 in Stockholm, Sweden
- Died: 5 October 1985 in Stockholm, Sweden
Theorems and Definitions
- Fréchet-Darmois-Cramér-Rao Inequality (also known as Cramér-Rao Inequality or Cramér-Rao Bound) (with Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao, independently from Maurice René Fréchet and Georges Darmois)
- Cramér's Conjecture
- Cramér’s Decomposition Theorem
- Cramér's Inequality
- Cramér's Theorem (Large Deviations)
- Cramér-Wold Theorem (with Herman Ole Andreas Wold)
- Cramér-von Mises Criterion (with Richard Edler von Mises)
- Cramér-von Mises-Smirnov Criterion (with Richard Edler von Mises and Nikolai Vasilyevich Smirnov)
- Cramér Function of Large Deviations Theory
- Cramér's V
Results named for Carl Harald Cramér can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Carl Harald Cramér can be found here.
Publications
- 1936: Über eine Eigenschaft der normalen Verteilungsfunktion (Math. Z. Vol. 41, no. 1: pp. 405 – 414)
- 1938: Sur un nouveau théorème-limite de la théorie des probabilités (Actualités Scientifiques et Industrielles Vol. 736: pp. 5 – 23)
Also known as
Usually known as Harald Cramér.
Sources
- John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Carl Harald Cramér": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Cramér, Harald (1893-1985)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Cramér, Harald (1893-1985)