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Felix Bernstein
Author(s) -
Schappacher Norbert
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
international statistical review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.051
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1751-5823
pISSN - 0306-7734
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2005.tb00247.x
Subject(s) - statistician , mathematics , set (abstract data type) , mathematical economics , computer science , statistics , programming language
Summary Felix Bernstein was a mathematician and statistician who is remembered for the “Schröder‐Bernstein Theorem” of set theory. He was appointed director in 1907 of what he was to develop into the Göttingen Institute for Mathematical Statistics, and in 1911 was involved in the formulation and proof of what became known as the Borel‐Cantelli lemmas. Bernstein worked out in 1924 the correct hypothesis for the genetic transmission of human bloodgroups, on the basis of the available statistical material.