Harold Silverstone
New Zealand mathematician & communist
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Harold Silverstone (1915–1974) was a New Zealand mathematician and statistician.
20 January 1915[1]
Harold Silverstone | |
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| Born | Harold Silverstone 20 January 1915[1] Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1] |
| Died | 1974[1] Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Otago |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexander Aitken |
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]