Mathematician:Georges Darmois
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Mathematician
French mathematician and statistician who pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis.
One of the first French mathematicians to teach British mathematical statistics.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 24 June 1888 in Éply, Meurthe-et-Moselle
- Died: 3 January 1960 in Paris
Theorems and Definitions
- Darmois-Skitovich Theorem (with Viktor Pavlovich Skitovich)
- Fréchet-Darmois-Cramér-Rao Inequality (also known as Cramér-Rao Inequality or Cramér-Rao Bound) (with Maurice René Fréchet, independently from Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao and Carl Harald Cramér)
- Pitman-Koopman-Darmois Theorem (with Edwin James George Pitman and Bernard Osgood Koopman) (also known as the Koopman-Pitman-Darmois Theorem or Pitman-Koopman Theorem)
- Koopman-Darmois Family of Distributions (also known as the Exponential Family of Distributions) (with Bernard Osgood Koopman)
Results named for Georges Darmois can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Georges Darmois can be found here.
Publications
- 1910: Sur les correspondances à normales concourantes
- 1913: Sur les courbes algébriques à torsion constante
- 1914: Sur les courbes à torsion constante
- 1914: Sur la méthode de Laplace
- 1923: Sur l'intégration locale des équations d'Einstein
- 1927: Les Équations de la Gravitation Einsteinienne
- 1927: La construction de Huygens et la théorie mécanique de la propogation des ondes (with F. Croze)
- 1932: La relativité