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'''Erastus Lyman De Forest''' (1834-1888) was a American [[mathematician]], who was professor at [[Yale University]].
'''Erastus Lyman De Forest''' (1834-1888) was an American [[mathematician]], who studied at [[Yale University]].


== Life and work ==
== Life and work ==

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Erastus Lyman De Forest
Born(1834-06-27)June 27, 1834
Watertown, Connecticut
DiedJune 6, 1888(1888-06-06) (aged 53)
Watertown, Connecticut
Alma materYale University
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsYale University

Erastus Lyman De Forest (1834-1888) was an American mathematician, who studied at Yale University.

Life and work

Son of a Yale graduate, De Forest graduated himself at Yale University in 1854 and was awarded PhB in 1856.[1] After, De Forest vanished for two years while a trip to New York, and his family feared the worst but, finally, he turned up in Australia, teaching in Melbourne.[2] In 1861 he returned to New Haven and devoted himself to study of mathematics.

In 1867-68 he was asked by his uncle, who was the president of Knickerbocker Life Insurance Company of New York, to improve the mortality tables used in his business.[3]

Between 1870 and 1885, De Forest published more than twenty articles on statistics, using in some of them an early version of the Monte Carlo method to smooth time series.[4]

References

  1. ^ Stigler 1978, p. 253.
  2. ^ Stigler 1978, p. 254.
  3. ^ Stigler 1978, p. 254-255.
  4. ^ Gentle 2002, p. 329.

Bibliography

  • Gentle, James E. (2002). Elements of Computational Statistics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-95489-9. {{cite book}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
  • Stigler, Stephen M (1978). "Mathematical Statistics in the Early States". The Annals of Statistics. 6 (2): 239–265. ISSN 0090-5364. {{cite journal}}: Invalid |ref=harv (help)
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