Jerzy neymar biography book

(b. Bendery, Russia, 16 April 1894; d.

Jerzy neymar biography book

Berkeley, California, 5 August 1981)

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Early Years , Jerzy Neyman was born in Bendery, Russia, to parents of Polish ancestry, His full name with title, Splawa-Neyman, the first part of which he dropped at age thirty, reflects membership in the Polish nobility, Neyman’s father, Czeslaw, who died when Jerzy was twelve, was a lawyer and later a judge, and an enthusiastic amateur archaeologist.

Since the family had been prohibited by the Russian authorities from living in central Poland, then under Russian domination, Neyman grew up in Russia: in Kherson, Melitopol, Simferopol, and (after his father’s death) in Kharkov, where in 1912 he entered the university.

At Kharkov, Neyman, was first interested in physics, but because of his clumsiness in the laboratory abandoned it in favor of mathematics.

He was greatly struck by Henri Lebesgue’s Leçons sur l’intélgration et la recherche des functions primitives, “the mo