Willem van Zwet

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Willem van Zwet (born March 31, 1934 - † July 2, 2020 in Oegstgeest ) was a Dutch mathematician who dealt with mathematical statistics .

Van Zwet received his doctorate in 1964 under Jan Hemelrijk at the University of Amsterdam (Convex Transformations of Random Variables). Afterwards he was at the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam and from 1965 Professor of Statistics at the University of Leiden , with a full professorship from 1968.

Van Zwet was director of the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics from 1992 to 1999. In 1997 he was one of the founders of Eurandom (European Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and their Applications) in Eindhoven and its director from 1997 to 2000.

He was a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics . In 2006 he received the Humboldt Research Award , in 1993 the Adolph Quetelet Medal and in 1978 he became an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society . From 1979 he was a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences, he was a member of the Academia Europaea and in 1996 he became a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. In 1997 he received an honorary doctorate from Charles University in Prague .

Fonts

  • Sara van de Geer , Marten Wegkamp (ed.): Selected Works of Willem van Zwet, Springer Verlag 2012

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Memoriam: Willem van Zwet. International Statistical Institute, accessed July 5, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Willem van Zwet in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Zwet, Willem van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch mathematical statistician
DATE OF BIRTH March 31, 1934
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2020
Place of death Oegstgeest