Ladislaus Bortkiewicz
Russian economist and statistician (1868-1931) · Poland · On the map · Academics · Died at 62
Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics.
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He lived most of his professional life in Germany, where he taught at Strassburg University and Berlin University (1901-1931).
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Poland
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Academics
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Academic
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Deceased
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Lived 1868 to 1931 · aged 62
