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Jerzy Neyman received the National Medal of Science "forlaying the foundations of modern statistics and devising tests andprocedures that have become essential parts of the knowledge of everystatistician." Until his death in 1981 at the age of eighty-seven, hewas vigorously involved in the concerns and controversies of the day,a teaching professor at the University of California, and thedirectory of the Berkeley Statistical Laboratory. Neyman was ascientist whose personality and activity were integral parts of hiscontribution to his science. His career is thus particularywell-suited for the nontechnical scientific life-story which ConstanceReid has made her own in such well-received biographies of scientistsHilbert and Courant in Goettingen and New York. She was able to talkextensively with Neyman and to have access to his personal andprofessional letters and papers. Her book will appeal to theprofessional statistician as well as to the layman who wo!uld liketo learn something of a subject which permeates almost every aspect ofmodern life. ... Read more

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great carefully done biography
Constance Reid is a biographer who has specialized writing about the lives of mathematicians, statisticians and scientists.Besides Neyman's book she wrote one about Courant.

Neyman had a very interesting life, from his early years in Europe where he grew up and did his fundamental work on mathematical statistics particularly the Neyman-Pearson theory fo hypothesis testing.Neyman met controversy head on as he like Karl Pearson before him had lively debates with Fisher as to what constitutes a test of significance.Neyman's approach was what is now called the frequentist approach which draws inference on the basis of what would happen by repeated sampling from an underlying probability distribution (the sampling distribution).Fisher on the other hand thought that what happens in other possible samples is irrelevant and that inference should be based solely on the data at hand.This led to what he called fiducial theory.Although during Fisher's lifetime the debate on this raged, the fiducial theory has largely been discredited.Differences in inference between the two approaches often did not occur and it wasn't until Neyman discovered the difference in results when nuisance parameters were involved, starting with the famous Behrens-Fisher problem of estimating the difference between the means of two normal distributions when the variances are unknown but must be assumed to be unequal.

Besides his fundamental contributions, Neyman immigrated to the United States and founded the Statistics Department at the University of California.He turned Berkeley into a hotbed for statistics and created one of the top statistics departments in the world, rivaled by its neighbor across the San Francsico Bay Leland Stnaford Junior University.In his 80s Neyman was as vibrant and productive as ever and was able to fubction this way due to the nursing help of his colleague and Berkeley Professor Elizabeth Scott.Reid emphasizes the last three years of Neyman's life when she interviewed him and followed him around.

I was a graduate student a Stanford during the period from 1974-1978.Each year Stanford and Berkeley would hold joint symposia that were commonly attended by the fraduate students and faculty from both schools,When the lectures were in Berkeley they were always followed by a dinner for the speaker at a nice Berkeley restaurant.It was on these occasions that I became acquainted with Neyman, Scott, Freedman, Bickel, LeCam, Blackwell and Lehmann.These were some of the top names in statistics at the time. Over at Stanford we had our own set of famous names with Efron, Miller, Moses, Diaconis, Olkin, Siegmund and Stein.

The strong academic and social nature of Jerzy Neyman and the Berkeley group that I personally expereinced is very well portrayed by Constance Reid in this fine biography.Technical details about statistical matters are kept out of the book.So this book can be enjoyed by people without much mathematical or statistical knowledge. ... Read more

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Jerzy Neyman - From Life describes the fascinating life of Jerzy Neyman and his work and interaction with other scientists, administrators and politicians. Jerzy Neyman was one of the 20th Century's greatest and most influential statisticians. Much of modern mathematical statistics is based on his work or inspired by his ideas although his influence ranges beyond the sphere of academic research and scientific papers. ... Read more

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Chapters: Communes of Bender Municipality, People From Bender, Moldova, Emil Constantinescu, Jerzy Neyman, Proteagailovca, Lev Berg, Igor Bugaiov, Michael Postan, Benderli Paşa, Maurice Raizman, Yevgeny Fyodorov, Ilarion Ciobanu. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Bender Bendery, Tighina item Municipality of Bender (in red) item Coordinates: 46°50 N 29°29 W / 46.833°N 29.483°W / 46.833; -29.483 item Country : Moldova item Autonomous Region: Transnistria item Founded: 1408 item Government item - Mayor: Vyacheslav Kogut item Area item - Total: 97.29 km (37.6 sq mi) item Population (2004) item - Total: 97,027 item Time zone : EET (UTC+2 ) Bender , also known as Tighina (Romanian ; Russian : , Bendery ; Ukrainian : , Bendery ) is a city within the internationally recognized borders of Moldova under de facto control of the unrecognized PMR since 1992. Located on the right (western) bank of the river Dniester in the historical region of Bessarabia , together with its suburb Proteagailovca , the city forms a municipality, which is separate from Transnistria according to the Moldovan law. Bender is located in the buffer zone established at the end of the 1992 War of Transnistria .While the Joint Control Commission has overriding powers in the city, Transnistria has de facto administrative control.Name First mentioned in 1408 as (Tyagyanyakyacha ) in a document in Old Slavonic (the term is of Cuman origin), the town was known in the Middle Ages as Tighina in Moldavian sources and later as Bender in Ottoman sources. The fortress and the city were called Bender for the most part of the time they were a rayah of the Ottomans (1538-1812), and during most of the time they belonged to the Russian Empire (1828-1917). They were known as Tighina ( ) in the Principality of Moldavia , in the early par... ... Read more

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From the Preface:

This book represents the implementation of a decision adopted by the Council of the National Academy of Sciences relating to the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Nicholas Copernicus. From the outset it was intended that this Copernican volume would describe a number of Copernican-type intellectual revolutions that have taken place in recent centuries. Such revolutions are characterized by the abandonment of widely held concepts and replacement by dramatically new conceptualizations that resulted in deepened understanding of natural processes.

It was the original intention of the Academy's Council that the essays would be addressed to the general educated public, including teaching staffs of colleges and high schools and college students. The combination of the intended broad coverage and the contemplated readership presented considerable difficulties and affected the choice of incidents in the history of modern science which could be discussed. As it has turned out, the material presented is quite rich and, while there is an unavoidable variation in the amount of specialized knowledge expected from the reader, we hope that the summaries preceding particular chapters are sufficient to create a broad perspective and make the whole understandable. To the extent that our goals have been approached, the help of numerous scientists is gratefully acknowledged.

The introductory chapter describes the circumstances and the essence of the initial intellectual revolution due to Copernicus himself. The subsequent six parts present in turn: (1) several revolutions in astronomy-cosmology, all in the twentieth century and one of them still in progress; (2) a number of deep revolutionary changes in the biological sciences, one of them made twenty years ago by an inspired contribution of a graduate student; (3) several revolutionary changes in the physical sciences; (4) revolutions in the thinking of mathematicians; (5) the emergence of a "pluralistic" point of view in scientific research; and (6) revolutions in technology.

The epoch when it was possible for individuals to acquire a reasonably detailed view of practically all of science is now far behind us. It was followed by a prolonged period of compartmentalization of research, with specialists in one domain becoming increasingly ignorant of developments in another. In the present epoch the pendulum appears to be moving in the opposite direction. The many problems faced by modern society depend for their solution on interdisciplinary studies and on participation of individuals with wide horizons. It is hoped that the publication of the present volume will serve not only to commemorate the achievements of Nicholas Copernicus but also to stimulate and accelerate this trend. ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Marie Curie, Arthur Rubinstein, Jacob Bronowski, Marek Belka, Jerzy Neyman, Filip Jan Rymsza. Excerpt:Photographed by Carl Van Vechten , 1937 Arthur Rubinstein KBE (January 28, 1887 December 20, 1982) was a Polish -American pianist. He received international acclaim for his performances of the music of a variety of composers. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Early life Rubinstein grew-up on the famous Piotrkowska street, ód Rubinstein was born in ód , Poland on January 28, 1887, to a Jewish family. He was the youngest of 8 children. At the age of two, he demonstrated perfect pitch and a fascination with the piano , watching his elder sister's piano lessons. By the age of four, he was already recognised as a child prodigy . The great Hungarian violinist Joseph Joachim , on hearing the four-year-old child play, was greatly impressed and began to mentor the young prodigy. Rubinstein first studied piano in Warsaw . By the age of ten, Rubinstein moved to Berlin to continue his studies. In 1900 at age 13, he made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic , followed by appearances in Germany and Poland and further study with Karl Heinrich Barth (an associate of Franz Liszt , Hans von Bülow , Joseph Joachim and Johannes Brahms ; Barth also taught Wilhelm Kempff ). Career In 1904, Rubinstein moved to Paris to launch his career in earnest. There he met the composers Maurice Ravel and Paul Dukas and the violinist Jacques Thibaud . He also played Camille Saint-Saëns ' Piano Concerto No. 2 in the presence of the composer. Through the family of Juliusz Wertheim (to whose understanding of Chopin's genius Rubinstein attributed his own inspiration in the works of that composer) he formed friendships with the violinist Paul Kochanski and composer Karol... ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Emil Constantinescu, Jerzy Neyman, Lev Berg, Igor Bugaiov, Michael Postan, Benderli Pa?a, Maurice Raizman, Yevgeny Fyodorov, Ilarion Ciobanu. Excerpt: Aciunea Popular (2001-2008) and National Liberal Party (since 2008) Emil Constantinescu (Romanian pronunciation: ; born November 19, 1939 in Tighina, currently in the Republic of Moldova) was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000. He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist. Beginning in 1966, Constantinescu taught in the Geology Faculty of the University of Bucharest, where he also became Propaganda Secretary of the local organisation of the Romanian Communist Party. After the Romanian revolution in 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the Civic Alliance. He was the acting chairman of the Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Forum, the first associative structure of the opposition in Romania, which was transformed into a political and electoral alliance - the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR). In 1992 he was elected president of the University of Bucharest, and became CDR's candidate for president. He lost the election to the incumbent, Ion Iliescu, after a second round. He and his wife Nadia, a former legal adviser whom he married in 1964, have a son, Drago, and a daughter, Norina, along with two grandchildren. After winning a November 17 runoff against Ion Iliescu, Constantinescu was sworn in as president on November 29 and appointed Victor Ciorbea, the mayor of Bucharest, as Prime Minister of Romania. The government was formed by a coalition of political alliances and parties: the CDR, USD and UDMR. In 1997, Romania began with great expectations. Initially, support for the new government was high... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=393370 ... Read more

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Chapters: Elżbieta Pleszczyńska, Jan Piekałkiewicz, Jerzy Neyman, Józef Buzek, Jan Czekanowski, Stanisław Trybuła, Edward Szturm de Sztrem. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 31. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elbieta Pleszczyska (born 20 March 1933) is a Polish full professor of statistics, activist of disability rights movement. M.Sc in mathematics at Warsaw University, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 1956. She held position at Institute of Mathematics PAS until 1972. She received her Ph.D. in 1965 in the area of discriminant analysis ("Power of Test, and Separability of Hypothesis in Statistical Design of Experiments"). Her habilitation thesis, titled "Trend Estimation Problems in Time Series Analysis", was accepted in 1973. In 1967/8 she was visiting researcher in University of Wales (Great Britain), and in 1971/2 in University of Montreal. In 1973 she moved to the Institute of Computer Science, PAS. In 1977, 1979 and 1989 she was awarded by the Polish Academy of Science. In 1981 she visited Italy invited by CNR. In the 1990s she started (together with her team) so called grade data analysis, a science of applying copula and rank methods to problems of correspondence and cluster analysis together with outlier detection. (The adjective grade here honors statisticians of the first half of the 20th century, who called cumulative distribution functions in this way.) In 1993 the President of the Republic of Poland awarded Elbieta Pleszczyska with the Full Professor title in the area of mathematics. In 2000 she was an invited consultant of the Cambridge University. In the Institute of Computer Science PAS, she had been leader of the Statistical Data Analysis division for many years. According to the Polish law, professors in PAS must retire at the age of 70. Retire...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18781896 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: People From Bender, Moldova, People From Dubăsari, People From Tiraspol, Emil Constantinescu, Jerzy Neyman, Lev Berg, Igor Bugaiov, Mikhail Larionov, Michael Postan, Alexandr Covalenco, Serghei Epureanu, Serghei Paşcenco, Benderli Paşa, Maurice Raizman, Yevgeny Fyodorov, Igor Samoilenco, Vladimir Yastrebchak, Vlad Grecu, Ilarion Ciobanu. Excerpt: Aciunea Popular (2001-2008) and National Liberal Party (since 2008) Emil Constantinescu (Romanian pronunciation: ; born November 19, 1939 in Tighina, currently in the Republic of Moldova) was President of Romania from 1996 to 2000. He graduated from the law school of the University of Bucharest, and subsequently started a career as a geologist. Beginning in 1966, Constantinescu taught in the Geology Faculty of the University of Bucharest, where he also became Propaganda Secretary of the local organisation of the Romanian Communist Party. After the Romanian revolution in 1989, Constantinescu became a founding member and vice president of the Civic Alliance. He was the acting chairman of the Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Forum, the first associative structure of the opposition in Romania, which was transformed into a political and electoral alliance - the Romanian Democratic Convention (CDR). In 1992 he was elected president of the University of Bucharest, and became CDR's candidate for president. He lost the election to the incumbent, Ion Iliescu, after a second round. He and his wife Nadia, a former legal adviser whom he married in 1964, have a son, Drago, and a daughter, Norina, along with two grandchildren. After winning a November 17 runoff against Ion Iliescu, Constantinescu was sworn in as president on November 29 and appointed Victor Ciorbea, the mayor of Bucharest, as Prime Minister of Romania. ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=393370 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: W. Edwards Deming, Frank Yates, John Tukey, Frederick Mosteller, David A. Freedman, Robert Groves, Jerzy Neyman, Donald Rubin, Daniel Yankelovich, Debabrata Basu, Leslie Kish, Tim Holt, T.m.f. Smith, Stephen Fienberg, Morris H. Hansen, William Gemmell Cochran, Wayne Fuller. Excerpt:Daniel Yankelovich Daniel Yankelovich (born 1924) is a public opinion analyst and social scientist . Education After attending Boston Latin School , Yankelovich graduated from Harvard University in 1946 and 1950 before completing postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in France. As a psychology professor he has taught at New York University and the The New School for Social Research . In 1996 he served as Senior Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Founds research firm In 1958 he founded the marketing and research firm Daniel Yankelovich, Inc., which was later renamed as Yankelovich, Skelly, ... Read more

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Chapters: Wac?aw Sierpi?ski, Hugo Steinhaus, Jan W?glarz, Hilary Koprowski, Jerzy Kury?owicz, Jerzy Neyman, Aleksander Wolszczan, Antoni Zygmund, Zygmunt Wojciechowski, Stanis?aw Mazur, Stefan Kieniewicz, Karol My?liwiec, W?adys?aw Markiewicz, Jerzy Samp, Polish Language Council, Edmund Wnuk-Lipi?ski, Fundamenta Mathematicae, Kazimierz Piwarski, Space Research Centre, Unipress, Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry, Sylwester Kaliski. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 69. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Hilary Koprowski (born December 5, 1916, in Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish virologist and immunologist, and inventor of the world's first effective live polio vaccine. Koprowski, Warsaw, 2007Hilary Koprowski grew up in Warsaw where he attended the Liceum Ogólnoksztacce and from age twelve took piano lessons at the Warsaw Conservatory. He received his medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine at Warsaw University in 1939. He also received music degrees from the Warsaw Conservatory and, in 1940, from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. He adopted scientific research as his life's work, though he never gave up music and composed several musical works. In 1939, after the Nazi invasion of Poland Koprowski and his wife Irena, a medical doctor, fled first to Rome, then in 1940 to Paris and finally, via Spain and Portugal, to Brazil, where Koprowski worked in Rio de Janeiro for the Rockefeller Foundation. His field of research for several years was finding a live-virus vaccine against yellow fever. After World War II the Koprowskis settled in Pearl River, New York, where Koprowski was hired as a researcher for Lederle Laboratories, the pharmaceutical division of American Cyanamid. Here Koprowski began his polio experiments which ultimately led to the discovery of the first oral polio v...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1063891 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jerzy Neyman, born Jerzy Splawa-Neyman, was a Polish-American mathematician and statistician who spent most of his professional career at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born into a Polish family in Bendery, Bessarabia in Imperial Russia, the fourth of four children of Czeslaw Splawa-Neyman and Kazimiera Lutoslawska. His family was Roman Catholic and Neyman served as an altar boy during his early childhood. Later, Neyman would become an agnostic. Neyman's family descended from a long line of Polish nobles and military heroes. 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. After he read 'Lessons on the integration and the research of the primitive functions' by Henri Lebesgue, he was fascinated with measure and integration. ... Read more