Nationality Italian Role Mathematician Alma mater University of Bergamo | Notable students Carlo Benedetti Name Carlo Bonferroni Fields Mathematics, Statistics | |
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Born 28 January 1892
Bergamo, Italy ( 1892-01-28 ) Academic advisors Giuseppe Peano
Corrado Segre Died August 18, 1960, Florence, Italy | ||
Institution University of Florence Institutions University of Florence | ||
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Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (28 January 1892 – 18 August 1960) was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory. Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was born in Bergamo on 28 January 1892 and died on 18 August 1960 in Florence. He studied in Turin, held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari. In 1933 he transferred to Florence where he held his chair until his death.
Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound), and for the Bonferroni correction in statistics (which he did not invent but which utilizes his inequalities).
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