Mathematician:Henry Berthold Mann

Mathematician

American professor of mathematics and statistics who proved the Schnirelmann-Landau Conjecture in number theory.

With Donald Ransom Whitney, developed the Mann-Whitney test.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 27 October 1905 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
• Died: 1 February 2000 in Tucson, Arizona, USA

Theorems and Inventions

• Mann-Wald Theorem (with Abraham Wald)

• Mann-Whitney Test (with Donald Ransom Whitney)

Definitions of concepts named for Henry Berthold Mann can be found here.

Publications

• 1942: A proof of the fundamental theorem on the density of sums of sets of positive integers (Ann. Math. Ser. 2 Vol. 43, no. 3: pp. 523 – 527)  www.jstor.org/stable/1968807
• 1947: On a Test of Whether one of Two Random Variables is Stochastically Larger than the Other (Ann. Math. Stat. Vol. 18, no. 1: pp. 50 – 60) (with D.R. Whitney)
• 1949: Analysis and design of experiments: Analysis of variance and analysis of variance designs
• 1955: Introduction to Algebraic Number Theory