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Jerzy Neyman (1894–1981) was born in Bendery near the border between Russia and Rumania. His father was a lawyer. Soon after his father’s death in 1906, Neyman’s family moved to Kharkov, in the Ukraine. He studied mathematics at the University of Kharkov, where the mathematician S. N. Bernstein introduced him to Karl Pearson’s Grammar of Science. Having twice been rejected for military service, he graduated in 1917 and continued at the University to prepare for an academic career. He was married in 1919, imprisoned twice during the Russian revolution, received his master’s degree in 1920, and subsequently lectured at the University in Kharkov. He went to Poland in 1921 in an exchange of nationals agreed to by Poland and Russia.
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Peters, W.S. (1987). Jerzy Neyman. In: Counting for Something. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4638-1_18
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