Harold Silverstone

Harold Silverstone (1915 – 1974) was a New Zealand mathematician and statistician.

Harold Silverstone
Born
Harold Silverstone

20 January 1915[1]
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1]
Died1974[1]
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand[1]
NationalityNew Zealand
Alma materUniversity of Otago
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
Doctoral advisorAlexander Aitken

Early life and education

He was born on 20 January 1915 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. His father Mark Woolf Silverstone was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Harold Silverstone was educated at Otago Boys High School. He later attended the University of Otago where he attained a B.A. in 1934 and an M.A. in 1935. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1939.[2][3]

Academic career

He was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the Otago University in 1946. He was appointed as the Statistician to the New Zealand National Service Department in 1940.[3]

Contributions to mathematics

He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound.[4][5][6]

Personal life

He was married twice, once to Madge Silverstone and another time to Eleanor Matilda Silverstone.[1]

He was a lifelong member of the New Zealand Communist Party.[7]

References
  1. "Harold Silverstone". geni_family_tree.
  2. "UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO GRADUATION CEREMONY". paperspast.natlib.govt.nz. 13 May 1936. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  3. "A-History-of-Statistics-in-New-Zealand" (PDF). www.stats.org.nz. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  4. "Two New Zealand pioneer econometricians" (PDF). www.researchgate.net. Retrieved 2021-04-06.
  5. Aitken, A. C.; Silverstone, H. (1942). "On the Estimation of Statistical Parameters". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 61 (2): 186–194. doi:10.1017/s008045410000618x. S2CID 124029876.
  6. Shenton, L. R. (1970). "The so-called Cramer–Rao inequality". The American Statistician. 24 (2): 36. JSTOR 2681931.
  7. "1.a - New Zealand Communist Party, Harold Silverstone resignation., 1957 - 1958 | ArchivesSpace Public Interface". archives.library.auckland.ac.nz.
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