Constance Reid research materials on Jerzy Neyman, 1978-1998 (bulk 1978-1981).

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Constance Reid research materials on Jerzy Neyman, 1978-1998 (bulk 1978-1981).

The Constance Reid research materials on Jerzy Neyman comprise correspondence, notebooks, research notes, and interviews that Reid either gathered or conducted in support of research on her book, "Neyman--from life," published in 1982 about the Polish-American mathematician and statistician Jerzy Neyman.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7555332

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Neyman, Jerzy, 1894-1981

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UCB Professor of mathmatics. From the description of Jerzy Neyman papers. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 743388753 ...

Reid, Constance L.

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Jerzy Neyman (1894-1981) was born into a Polish family in Bendery, Besserabia in Imperial Russia. He graduated from the Kamianets-Podilskyi gubernial gymnasium for boys in 1909 under the name Yuri Cheslavovich Neyman. He began studies at Kharkov University in 1912, where he was taught by Russian probabilist Sergei Natanovich Bernstein. In 1921 he returned to Poland in a program of repatriation of POWs after the Polish-Soviet War. He earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Univerisity of Wa...