Erastus L. De Forest

Erastus Lyman De Forest
Born (1834-06-27)June 27, 1834
Watertown, Connecticut
Died June 6, 1888(1888-06-06) (aged 53)
Watertown, Connecticut
Alma mater Yale University
Scientific career
Fields Mathematics
Institutions Yale 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, pp. 254–255.
  4. ↑ Gentle 2002, p. 329.

Bibliography

  • Gentle, James E. (2002). Elements of Computational Statistics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-95489-9.
  • Stigler, Stephen M (1978). "Mathematical Statistics in the Early States". The Annals of Statistics. 6 (2): 239–265. ISSN 0090-5364. JSTOR 2958876.
  • O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Erastus L. De Forest", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews .
  • "De Forest, Erastus Lyman". American National Biography Online. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
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