Mathematician:Henry Scheffé

Mathematician

American statistician known for the Lehmann-Scheffé Theorem and Scheffé's Method.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: 11 April 1907 in Berkeley, California
• Died: 5 July 1977 in USA

Theorems and Definitions

• Lehmann-Scheffé Theorem (with Erich Leo Lehmann)
• Scheffé's Lemma
• Scheffé's Method

Results named for Henry Scheffé can be found here.

Publications

• 1935: The Asymptotic Solutions of Certain Linear Differential Equations in which the Coefficient of the Parameter May Have a Zero

Sources

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