Mathematician:Irénée-Jules Bienaymé
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Mathematician
French mathematician mainly working in statistics, whose work can be considered as extending the work of Laplace.
Nationality
French
History
- Born: 28 August 1796, Paris, France
- 1852: Admitted to the Académie des Sciences
- Died: 19 October 1878, Paris, France
Theorems and Definitions
- Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality (with Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev) (also known as Chebyshev's Inequality)
- Bienaymé Formula
- Criticality Theorem for Simple Branching Processes
Results named for Irénée-Jules Bienaymé can be found here.
Publications
- 1853: Considérations à l'appui de la découverte de Laplace sur la loi de probabilité dans la méthode des moindres carrés, in which the Bienaymé-Chebyshev Inequality first appears
Translated the works of his friend and colleague Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev into French.
Also known as
His first name Irénée often appears as Irenée.