Mathematician:Irénée-Jules Bienaymé

Mathematician

French mathematician mainly working in statistics, whose work can be considered as extending the work of Laplace.

Nationality

French

History

• Born: 28 August 1796, Paris, France
• 1852: Admitted to the Académie des Sciences
• Died: 19 October 1878, Paris, France

Theorems and Definitions

• Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality (with Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev) (also known as Chebyshev's Inequality)
• Bienaymé Formula
• Criticality Theorem for Simple Branching Processes

Results named for Irénée-Jules Bienaymé can be found here.

Publications

• 1853: Considérations à l'appui de la découverte de Laplace sur la loi de probabilité dans la méthode des moindres carrés, in which the Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality first appears

Translated the works of his friend and colleague Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev into French.

Also known as

His first name Irénée often appears as Irenée.

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Irénée-Jules Bienaymé": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive