Carlo Emilio Bonferroni

Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (28 January 1892 – 18 August 1960) was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory. Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was born in Bergamo on 28 January 1892 and died on 18 August 1960 in Florence.[1] He studied in Turin, held a post as assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari. In 1933 he transferred to Florence, where he held his chair until his death.

Carlo E. Bonferroni
Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
Born(1892-01-28)28 January 1892
Died18 August 1960(1960-08-18) (aged 68)
NationalityItalian
Alma materUniversity of Turin
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Statistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Florence
Academic advisorsGiuseppe Peano
Corrado Segre
Notable studentsCarlo Benedetti

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 utilizes his inequalities).

See also

References

  1. "Bonferroni biography". www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk. University of St Andrews, Scotland. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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