Mathematician:Harold Jeffreys

Mathematician

English mathematician, statistician, geophysicist, and astronomer.

Introduced the concept of the Bayes' factor.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 22 April 1891 in Fatfield (near Durham), England
• Died: 18 March 1989 in Cambridge, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Jeffreys Prior

Publications

• 1924: The Earth, Its Origin, History and Physical Constitution
• 1927: Operational Methods in Mathematical Physics
• 1929: The Future of the Earth
• 1931: Scientific Inference
• 1931: Cartesian Tensors
• 1934: Ocean Waves and Kindred Geophysical Phenomena (with Vaughan Cornish)
• 1935: Earthquakes and Mountains
• 1939: Theory of Probability

• 1946: Methods of Mathematical Physics (with Bertha Swirles Jeffreys)
  • 1950: Methods of Mathematical Physics, 2nd ed. (with Bertha Swirles Jeffreys)
  • 1956: Methods of Mathematical Physics, 3rd ed. (with Bertha Swirles Jeffreys)
  • 1966: Methods of Mathematical Physics, corrected 3rd ed. (with Bertha Swirles Jeffreys)

• 1962: Asymptotic Approximations
• 1963: Nutation and Forced Motion of the Earth's Pole from the Data of Latitude Observations

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Harold Jeffreys": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Jeffreys, Sir Harold (1891-1989)