Mathematician:Arthur Lyon Bowley

Mathematician

English statistician and economist who worked on economic statistics and pioneered the use of sampling techniques in social surveys.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 6 November 1869 in Bristol, England
• Died: 21 January 1957 in Fernhurst, Surrey, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Bowley Skewness
• Bowley's Law

Results named for Arthur Lyon Bowley can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Arthur Lyon Bowley can be found here.

Publications

• 1893: A Short Account of England's Foreign Trade in the Nineteenth Century
• 1900: Wages and Income in the United Kingdom Since 1860

• 1901: Elements of Statistics
  • 1920: Elements of Statistics (4th edition)

• 1910 An Elementary Manual of Statistics
• 1919: The Division of the Product of Industry
• 1924: The Mathematical Groundwork of Economics
• 1928: Bilateral Monopoly
• 1928: F.Y. Edgeworth's Contributions to Mathematical Statistics
• 1930 -- 35: New Survey of London Life and Labour
• 1939: Three Studies in National Income
• 1941: Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Arthur Lyon Bowley": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive