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Abraham Wald
Wald Ábrahám
American Jewish mathematician, statistician, and scientist (1902–1950).
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Statements about
Abraham Wald
Sex or Gender
Male
Occupation
Mathematician
Statistician
University Teacher
Economist
Research Scientist
Field of Work
Functional Analysis
Statistics
Mathematics
Place of Birth
Cluj-Napoca
Country
:
Austria–Hungary
Place of Death
Nilgiri Mountains
Coordinate Location
:
11.4855°N 76.9554°E
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Date of Death
12/13/1950
12/31/1950
Date of Birth
10/31/1902
Instance Of
Human
Educated At
University of Vienna
(1927 - 1931)
Start Time
:
1927
End Time
:
1931
"King Ferdinand I" University
( - 1927)
End Time
:
1927
Given Name
Ábrahám
Family Name
Wald
Doctoral Advisor
Karl Menger
Manner of Death
Accidental Death
Employer
Columbia University
(1941 - 1950)
Start Time
:
1941
End Time
:
1950
Carnegie Institution for Science
(1938 - 1941)
Start Time
:
1938
End Time
:
1941
Child
Robert M. Wald
Ethnic Group
Ashkenazi Jews
Cause of Death
Aviation Accident
Air India VT-CFK
Award Received
Fellow of the Econometric Society
(1939)
Point in Time
:
1939
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(1940)
Point in Time
:
1940
Country of Citizenship
Kingdom of Hungary
( - 1918)
End Time
:
1918
Kingdom of Romania
(1920 - )
Start Time
:
1920
United States
Influenced By
Oskar Morgenstern
Languages Spoken, Written or Signed
English
German
American English
Austrian German
Romanian
Hungarian
Academic Thesis
Über Das Hilbertsche Axiomensystem Der Geometrie
Publication Date
:
1931
Notable Work
Wald's Equation
Wald Test
Wald–Wolfowitz Runs Test
Wald's Martingale
Continuous Mapping Theorem
Wald's Maximin Model
Student
Jacob Wolfowitz
Student Of
Harold Hotelling
Member Of
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
(1940 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Start Time
:
1940
Econometric Society
(1939 - )
Subject Has Role
:
Fellow of the Econometric Society
Start Time
:
1939
Religion or Worldview
Orthodox Judaism
External Pages About Abraham Wald
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Encyclopædia Britannica Online
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