Harald Cramér

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Harald Cramér was a Swedish mathematician and statistician renowned for his foundational contributions to probability theory and mathematical statistics.

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instanceOf human
mathematician
statistician
academicDegree PhD in mathematics
authorOf Mathematical Methods of Statistics
Random Variables and Probability Distributions
awardReceived Guy Medal in Gold
Sylvester Medal
countryOfCitizenship Sweden
dateOfBirth 1893-04-25
dateOfDeath 1985-10-05
doctoralAdvisor Gösta Mittag-Leffler
surface form: Gosta Mittag-Leffler
educatedAt Stockholm University
employer Stockholm School of Economics
Stockholm University
familyName Harald Cramér self-linksurface differs
surface form: Cramér
fieldOfWork mathematical statistics
number theory
probability theory
givenName Harald
hasAcademicDiscipline statistics
influenced modern mathematical statistics
theory of statistical estimation
knownFor Cramér–Lundberg model in risk theory
Cramér–Rao bound
Cramér–Wold theorem
Cramér’s conjecture in number theory
Cramér’s theorem in large deviations
languageSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
Swedish
memberOf Royal Statistical Society
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
nativeLanguage Swedish
notableWork Mathematical Methods of Statistics
Limit Laws for Sums of Independent Random Variables
surface form: Random Variables and Probability Distributions
placeOfBirth Stockholm
Sweden
placeOfDeath Stockholm
Sweden
positionHeld professor of insurance mathematics
professor of mathematical statistics
rector of Stockholm University
publicationYearOfWork 1946
sexOrGender male
workLocation Stockholm

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Emanuel Parzen doctoralAdvisor Harald Cramér
Cramér–Rao bound namedAfter Harald Cramér
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