Mathematician:Ronald Aylmer Fisher

Mathematician

English statistician, evolutionary biologist, mathematician, geneticist, and eugenicist.

Pioneered the technique of analysis of variance.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 17 February 1890 in London, England
• Died: 29 July 1962 in Adelaide, Australia

Theorems and Definitions

• Fisher's Inequality
• Fisher's Method for combining Independent Tests of Significance
• Fisher's Permutation Test

• Fisher-Kolmogorov Equation (with Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov)
• Fisher-Rao Theorem (with Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao)
• Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko Theorem (with Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett‎ and Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko)

• Behrens-Fisher Distribution (with Walter-Ulrich Behrens)
• Behrens-Fisher Problem (with Walter-Ulrich Behrens)
• Behrens-Fisher Test (with Walter-Ulrich Behrens)

• Fisher's Exact Test, also known as:

the Fisher-Irwin Test (with Joseph Oscar Irwin)

the Fisher-Yates Test (with Frank Yates)

• Fisher's Geometric Model
• Fisher Information
• Fisher's Iris
• Fisher Kernel
• Fisher's Linear Discriminant
• Fisher Matrix
• Fisherian Runaway
• Fisher's $z$-Distribution
• Fisher's $z$-Transformation

• Fisher-Bingham Distribution (with Christopher Bingham)
• Fisher-Freeman-Halton Test (with G.H. Freeman and John Henry Halton)
• Fisher-Tippett Distribution (with Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett)
• Fisher-Yates Shuffle (with Frank Yates)
• Von Mises-Fisher Distribution (with Richard Edler von Mises)

Results named for Ronald Aylmer Fisher can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Ronald Aylmer Fisher can be found here.

Publications

• 1925: Statistical Methods for Research Workers
• 1930: The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection
• 1935: The Design of Experiments
• 1936: The use of multiple measurements in taxonomic problems

• 1938: Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research (with Frank Yates)
  • 1963: Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research, 6th ed. (with Frank Yates)

• 1949: The theory of inbreeding
• 1950: Contributions to mathematical statistics
• 1956: Statistical methods and scientific inference

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Ronald Aylmer Fisher": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fisher, Sir Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Fisher, Ronald Aylmer (1890-1962)