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Abraham Wald (geboren 31. Oktober 1902 in Kolozsvár, Österreich-Ungarn; gestorben 13. Dezember 1950 in Travancore, Indien) war ein deutschsprachiger, rumänisch-US-amerikanischer Mathematiker aus Siebenbürgen. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Statistiker des 20. Jahrhunderts und leistete einen bedeutenden Beitrag zur Wirtschaftswissenschaft.
Abraham Wald (/ w ɔː l d /; Hungarian: Wald Ábrahám, Yiddish: אברהם וואַלד; () 31 October 1902 – () 13 December 1950) was a Jewish Hungarian mathematician who contributed to decision theory, geometry and econometrics, and founded the field of sequential analysis.
31 October 1902. Kolozsvár, Hungary (now Cluj, Romania) Died. 13 December 1950. Travancore, India. Summary. Abraham Wald was a mathematician born in what is now Romania who worked on decision theory, geometry and econometrics. View four larger pictures. Biography. Abraham Wald was born into a Jewish family in Hungary.
4 min read. 06_03_2021. Abraham Wald lived to see the end of World War II because of his mastery of statistics, which got him a job in the U.S. that enabled him to escape Nazi persecution in Europe. He put these same skills to use to help his adopted country triumph over the Nazis during the war.
1. Jan. 2017 · Original. Born in Cluj, Rumania, Wald came to Vienna in 1927 to study mathematics with Karl Menger, the geometer and son of the economist Carl Menger. Menger introduced Wald to the active mathematical group in Vienna, and secured for him a position as mathematical tutor to the...
ABRAHAM WALD, 1902-1950 367. been murdered by the Nazis. Even this cruel blow failed to make him embittered, although a certain sadness could be felt to be with him for the rest of his life. Later he succeeded in bringing the sole survivor, his brother Hermann, to this country, and he took great comfort in his.
A more complete biography of Abraham Wald may be found in the Ency-clopedia of Statistical Sciences. Wald's 1949 paper, "Statistical Decision Functions," is notable for unifying practically all existing statistical theory by treating statistical problems as special cases of zero-sum two-person games. In 1950, a monograph of the
