MATHEMATICIAN

Harold Hotelling

1895 - 1973

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Harold Hotelling (; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science. He was associate professor of mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harold Hotelling has received more than 276,770 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Harold Hotelling is the 639th most popular mathematician (down from 539th in 2019), the 5,489th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,654th in 2019) and the 41st most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harold Hotelling ranks 639 out of 1,004. Before him are Hilda Geiringer, Joseph Diez Gergonne, Jacques Pelletier du Mans, Mark Krein, Paul Neményi, and Paul Gordan. After him are Georg Stiernhielm, Vera T. Sós, Claude Chevalley, Ludwig Bieberbach, David Gregory, and Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Harold Hotelling ranks 191. Before him are August Emil Fieldorf, Carl Westergren, Ngaio Marsh, John J. McCloy, Henry Gunther, and Paul Neményi. After him are Giuseppe Bottai, John Diefenbaker, Max Valier, Ernest Labrousse, Titsian Tabidze, and Conchita Supervía. Among people deceased in 1973, Harold Hotelling ranks 167. Before him are David Murray, Charles Daniels, Alexander Rou, Hilda Geiringer, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, and İbrahim Kaypakkaya. After him are Conrad Aiken, Gösta Dunker, Anton Ackermann, Robert Buron, Elizabeth Bowen, and William Justin Kroll.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Hotelling ranks 5,489 out of 20,380. Before him are Alvan Graham Clark (1832), Clarence Gilyard (1955), Jerry Unser Jr. (1932), Adrian Belew (1949), Honus Wagner (1874), and Vincent Gallo (1961). After him are Michael Dell (1965), Fletcher Henderson (1897), Adam Brody (1979), Phil Woods (1931), Amy Brenneman (1964), and Yogi Berra (1925).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Harold Hotelling ranks 41. Before him are Louis J. Mordell (1888), Benjamin Peirce (1809), Michael Freedman (1951), Richard Montague (1930), Robert Axelrod (1943), and Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874). After him are Oswald Veblen (1880), Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Kenneth Appel (1932), David Gale (1921), Daniel Quillen (1940), and Charles Fefferman (1949).

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