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Abraham Wald

1902 - 1950

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Abraham Wald (; Hungarian: Wald Ábrahám, Yiddish: אברהם וואַלד; (1902-10-31)31 October 1902 – (1950-12-13)13 December 1950) was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician who contributed to decision theory, geometry and econometrics, and founded the field of sequential analysis. One of his well-known statistical works was written during World War II on how to minimize the damage to bomber aircraft and took into account the survivorship bias in his calculations. He spent his research career at Columbia University. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Abraham Wald has received more than 735,186 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Abraham Wald is the 319th most popular mathematician (up from 335th in 2019), the 130th most popular biography from Romania (up from 149th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Romanian Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Abraham Wald ranks 319 out of 1,004. Before him are John Milnor, Johannes Widmann, John G. Thompson, Oronce Finé, Theodor Kaluza, and Gotthold Eisenstein. After him are Igor Shafarevich, Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov, August Leopold Crelle, Shiing-Shen Chern, Stephen Smale, and Bartel Leendert van der Waerden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Abraham Wald ranks 97. Before him are Therese Brandl, Jayaprakash Narayan, Darryl F. Zanuck, Santos Iriarte, Jan Tschichold, and Elsa Lanchester. After him are Nicolás Guillén, William Walton, Samuel Goudsmit, Leopold Figl, Vladimír Clementis, and Albert Forster. Among people deceased in 1950, Abraham Wald ranks 61. Before him are Alfred Korzybski, Alma Karlin, Agnes Smedley, Kim Kyu-sik, Henry H. Arnold, and Walter Huston. After him are Olaf Stapledon, Hantaro Nagaoka, John C. Woods, Walter Eucken, Yvan Goll, and Traian Vuia.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Abraham Wald ranks 130 out of 844. Before him are Lucien Goldmann (1913), Constantin Brâncoveanu (1654), Miklós Nyiszli (1901), Vasile Milea (1927), Georges Politzer (1903), and Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (1916). After him are Ibrahim Muteferrika (1674), Joseph M. Juran (1904), Mihai Antonescu (1904), Victor Brauner (1903), Manea Mănescu (1916), and Bálint Bakfark (1507).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Romania

Among mathematicians born in Romania, Abraham Wald ranks 4. Before him are János Bolyai (1802), Zoia Ceaușescu (1949), and Farkas Bolyai (1775). After him are Ion Ghica (1816), Ion Barbu (1895), Spiru Haret (1851), Grigore Moisil (1906), Solomon Marcus (1925), and George Lusztig (1946).

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