István Vincze (mathematician)

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István Vincze (born February 26, 1912 in Szeged ; † April 18, 1999 ) was a Hungarian mathematician who mainly worked and taught in the field of mathematical statistics .

Life

Vincze completed his mathematics studies at the University of Szeged in 1935 and then worked for a Hungarian insurance company until 1945. After the Second World War, he first worked for the Hungarian Ministry of Education. Afterwards he was one of the co-founders of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , whose director Alfréd Rényi became. Until his retirement in 1980 he was head of the statistical department. He also held a professorship for statistics at the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest.

Scientific work

István Vincze initially worked in the field of geometry , on which he published several publications, including collaborative work with Paul Erdős . He later turned to mathematical statistics, in which he made contributions to both theory and practice. The main focus of his work was parameter-free statistics , empirical distribution functions , the Cramér-Rao inequality and information theory .

Vincze was co-editor of several mathematical journals.

Fonts

István Vincze has published over 100 papers in professional journals and wrote ten books.

  • Károly Sarkadi, István Vincze: Studies in mathematical statistics. Theory and applications. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1968.
  • Mathematical statistics with industrial applications. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1971.
  • On the Cramer-Fréchet-Rao Inequality in the Non-Regular Case. In: Contributions to Statistics. Jaroslav Hájek Memorial Volume. Academia, Prague, 1979, pp. 253-262.
  • George Csordas, Richard S. Varga, István Vincze: Jensen polynomials with applications to the Riemann ζ-function. In: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. No. 153, 1990, pp. 112-135.
  • Cramer-Rao type inequality and a problem of mixture of distributions . In: Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications. Volume. 7, No. 1, 1996, pp. 237-245.

literature

The work gives a brief overview of the life and work of István Vincze

  • Endre Csáki: István Vincze (1912–1999) and his contribution to lattice path combinatorics and statistics. In: Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. 135, 2005, pp. 3–17 ( online ; PDF; 236 kB).

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personal data
SURNAME Vincze, Istvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 1999