Harold Silverstone Explained

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.

Early life and education

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]

Academic career

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]

Contributions to mathematics

He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound.[4] [5] [6]

Personal life

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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Harold Silverstone. geni_family_tree.
  2. Web site: UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO GRADUATION CEREMONY . 13 May 1936 . paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 2021-04-06.
  3. Web site: A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand . www.stats.org.nz . 2021-04-06 . 2020-01-29 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200129112839/https://www.stats.org.nz/app/uploads/2018/07/A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand.pdf . dead .
  4. Web site: Two New Zealand pioneer econometricians . www.researchgate.net . PDF. 2021-04-06.
  5. Aitken . A. C. . Silverstone . H. . 1942 . On the Estimation of Statistical Parameters . Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh . 61 . 2. 186–194 . 10.1017/s008045410000618x . 124029876 .
  6. L. R. . Shenton . The so-called Cramer–Rao inequality . . 1970 . 24 . 2 . 36 . 2681931 .
  7. Web site: 1.a - New Zealand Communist Party, Harold Silverstone resignation., 1957 - 1958 | ArchivesSpace Public Interface. archives.library.auckland.ac.nz.