93,821 profiles ranked live

Irénée-Jules Bienaymé

✓ Source-basedrising

French mathematician (1796-1878)

FranceAcademicsLived 1796 to 1878 · aged 82
Compare
Fame45.4
Momentum6.9
Languages11
In century#14,586

Irénée-Jules Bienaymé was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences.

Also inDeutsch

Photos 1

Awards 1

Officer of the Legion of Honour

Academics from France 6

About this person

Irénée-Jules Bienaymé was a French statistician. He built on the legacy of Laplace generalizing his least squares method. He contributed to the fields of probability and statistics, and to their application to finance, demography and social sciences. In particular, he formulated the Bienaymé-Chebyshev inequality concerning the law of large numbers and the Bienaymé formula for the variance of a sum of uncorrelated random variables.

Country
France
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1796 to 1878 · aged 82
Written about in
11 languages

Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.