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Carlo Emilio Bonferroni

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Carlo E. Bonferroni
Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
Born(1892-01-28)28 January 1892
Bergamo, Italy
Died18 August 1960(1960-08-18) (aged 68)
Florence, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Turin
SpouseJolenda Bonferroni[1]
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsPolytechnic University of Turin
University of Bari
University of Florence
Academic advisorsGiuseppe Peano
Corrado Segre
Notable studentsCarlo Benedetti

Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (28 January 1892 – 18 August 1960) was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory.[2]

Biography

Bonferroni studied piano and conducting in Turin Conservatory and at University of Turin under Giuseppe Peano and Corrado Segre, where he obtained his laurea. During this time he also studied at University of Vienna and ETH Zurich. During World War I, he was an officer among the engineers. Bonferroni held a position as assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute of the University of Bari. In 1933 he transferred to University of Florence, where he held his chair until his death.

Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound), and for the Bonferroni correction in statistics (which he did not invent, but which is related to the Bonferroni inequalities).

See also

References

  1. ^ Mikulski, Piotr W. (2012-09-12), "Bonferroni, Carlo Emilio", in Johnson, Norman L.; Kotz, Samuel (eds.), Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences, Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics, Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., pp. 225–227, doi:10.1002/9781118150719.ch68, ISBN 978-1-118-15071-9, retrieved 2022-10-25
  2. ^ Robertson, Edmund; Dewey, Michael. "Carlo Emilio Bonferroni". MacTutor. Archived from the original on 2022-10-27. Retrieved 2022-10-26.

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