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Henry Mann

Mathematician and statistician (1905-2000) · United States · On the map · Academics · Died at 94

Henry Berthold Mann was a professor of mathematics and statistics at the Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in number theory, and as a result earned the 1946 Cole Prize. He and his student D. Ransom Whitney developed the ("Mann-Whitney") U-statistic of nonparametric statistics.

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Awards

Cole Prize in Number Theory1946
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics1944

About this person

Mann published the first mathematical book on the design of experiments: Mann (1949).

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 2000 · aged 94