Timeline for Pseudonyms of famous mathematicians
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| May 15, 2020 at 20:47 | history | edited | Martin Sleziak | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
http -> https (the question was bumped anyway)
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| Nov 8, 2010 at 1:03 | history | edited | J.C. Ottem | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
edited body
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| Nov 8, 2010 at 0:10 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | (cont'd) "...There is an apocryphal story that the first time the Guinness family heard of this work occurred when Gosset died suddenly of a heart attack in 1937 and his mathematical friends approached the Guinness company to help pay the costs of printing his collected papers in a single volume. Whether this is true or not, it is clear from the memoirs of the American statistician Harold Hotelling ... that arrangements were made to meet him secretly, with all the aspects of a spy mystery. This suggests that the true identity of 'Student' was still a secret from the Guinness company." | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 0:09 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | (cont'd) "Two years before this, when Gosset described his results dealing with yeast, Pearson was eager to print it in his journal. They decided to publish the article using a pseudonym. This first discovery of Gosset's was published by an author identified only as 'Student.'" (cont'd) | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 0:07 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | (cont'd) "However, it was against company policy to allow publications by its employees. A few years before, a master brewer from Guinness had written an article in which he revealed the secret components of one of their brewing processes. To avoid the further loss of such valuable company property, Guinness had forbidden its employees from publishing ... In 1906, Gosset convinced his employers that the new mathematical ideas were useful for a beer company and took a one-year leave of absence to study under (Karl) Pearson at the Galton Biometrical Laboratory." (cont'd) | |
| Nov 8, 2010 at 0:05 | comment | added | J. M. isn't a mathematician | The book "The Lady Tasting Tea" by David Salsburg explains: "Gosset wanted to publish this result in an appropriate journal. The Poisson distribution (or the formula for it) had been known for over 100 years, and attempts had been made in the past to find examples of it in real life ... in his yeast cell counts, Gosset had a clear example, along with an important application of the new idea of statistical distributions." (cont'd) | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 22:06 | history | edited | Thierry Zell | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
Explained the use of the pseudonym
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| Nov 7, 2010 at 19:45 | comment | added | Michael Hardy | Gosset published lots of papers under that same pseudonym. But that one early paper explains the terms "Student's distribution", "Student's t", "Studentized residual", "Studentized range" and probably some others. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 18:33 | comment | added | Leonid Petrov | Wow, I did not know that Student was not a last name. | |
| Nov 7, 2010 at 18:07 | history | answered | Franz Lemmermeyer | CC BY-SA 2.5 |