Mathematician:Irénée-Jules Bienaymé

French mathematician mainly working in statistics, whose work can be considered as extending the work of Laplace.

His first name often appears as Irenée.

Nationality
French

History

 * Born: 28 August 1796, Paris, France
 * 1852: Admitted to the Académie des Sciences
 * Died: 19 October 1878, Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

 * Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality (with Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev)
 * Bienaymé Formula
 * Criticality Theorem for Simple Branching Processes

Books and Papers

 * 1853: Considérations à l'appui de la découverte de Laplace sur la loi de probabilité dans la méthode des moindres carrés, in which the Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality first appears

Translated the works of his friend and colleague Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev into French.