Bonferroni, Carlo Emilio was born in 1892 in Bergamo, Italy. He obtained a degree in mathematics in Turin and completed his education by spending a year at university in Vienna and at the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule in Zurich. He was a Military officer during the First World War, and after the war had finished became an assistant professor at Turin Polytechnic. In 1923, he received the Financial Mathematics Chair at the Economics Institute in Bari, where he was the Rector for seven years. He finally transferred to Florence in 1933, where he held his chair until his death.
Bonferroni tackled various subjects, including actuarial mathemetics, probability and statistical mathematics, analysis, geometry and mechanics. He gave his name to the two Bonferroni inequalities that facilitate the treatment of statistical dependences. These appeared for the first time in 1936, in the article Teoria statistica delle classi e calcolo delle probabilità . The development of these inequalities...
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(2008). Bonferroni, Carlo E.. In: The Concise Encyclopedia of Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-32833-1_39
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