Kari Karhunen

Kari Karhunen (* 1915 ; † 1992 ) was a Finnish mathematician in the field of probability theory and mathematical statistics . He is known for the Karhunen-Loève theorem and the Karhunen-Loève transformation .

Karhunen received his PhD in 1947 from Helsinki University on linear methods in probability . The supervisor of his dissertation was Rolf Nevanlinna .

In 1955 he worked for the Finnish Committee for Mathematical Machines, which developed the first Finnish computer ESKO.

Individual evidence

^ Kari Karhunen: About linear methods in the calculus of probability , Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ. Ser. AI Math.-Phys., 1947, No. 37, pp. 1-79

↑ Kari Karhunen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English).

^ Petri Paju: A Failure Revisited: The First Finnish Computer Construction Project . In: Janis Bubenko, John Impagliazzo, Arne Sølvberg (Eds.): History of Nordic Computing . Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 0-387-24167-1 , p. 79-94 , doi : 10.1007 / 0-387-24168-X_7 (English).

personal data
SURNAME	Karhunen, Kari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	1915
DATE OF DEATH	1992

[1] Kari Karhunen: About linear methods in the calculus of probability , Annales Academiæ Scientiarum Fennicæ. Ser. AI Math.-Phys., 1947, No. 37, pp. 1-79

[2] Kari Karhunen in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English).

[3] Petri Paju: A Failure Revisited: The First Finnish Computer Construction Project . In: Janis Bubenko, John Impagliazzo, Arne Sølvberg (Eds.): History of Nordic Computing . Springer, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 0-387-24167-1 , p. 79-94 , doi : 10.1007 / 0-387-24168-X_7 (English).