| Harold Silverstone | |
| Birth Name: | Harold Silverstone |
| Birth Date: | 20 January 1915[1] |
| Birth Place: | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand |
| Death Date: | 1974 |
| Death Place: | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand |
| Nationality: | New Zealand |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Alma Mater: | University of Otago |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Alexander Aitken |
Harold Silverstone (1915–1974) was a New Zealand mathematician and statistician.
He was born on 20 January 1915 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. His father Mark Woolf Silverstone was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Harold Silverstone was educated at Otago Boys High School. He later attended the University of Otago where he attained a B.A. in 1934 and an M.A. in 1935. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1939.[2] [3]
He was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the Otago University in 1946. He was appointed as the Statistician to the New Zealand National Service Department in 1940.[3]
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound.[4] [5] [6]
He was married twice, once to Madge Silverstone and another time to Eleanor Matilda Silverstone.[1]
He was a lifelong member of the New Zealand Communist Party.[7]