Gustav Elfving
| Erik Gustav Elfving | |
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| Born |
25 June 1908 Helsinki, Finland |
| Died | 25 March 1984 (aged 75) Helsinki, Finland |
| Residence | Finland |
| Nationality | Finnish |
| Fields | Statistics, Probability theory |
| Institutions | Helsinki University |
| Alma mater | Helsinki University |
| Doctoral advisor | Rolf Nevanlinna |
| Doctoral students |
Elja Arjas Anders Ekholm Johan Fellman Pentti Suomela |
| Known for | Elfving sets, Elfving's theorem in the optimal design of experiments |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, Honorary Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences |
Erik Gustav Elfving (June 25, 1908 – March 25, 1984) was a Finnish mathematician and statistician. In statistics, he wrote pioneering papers about the optimal design of experiments. He made other notable contributions to the mathematical sciences and to Finnish universities.
Erik Gustav Elfving was son of Fredrik Elfving (1854–1942), a professor of botany at the University of Helsinki, and Thyra Elfving (née Ingman). He was the youngest of four children. Gustav Elfving earned excellent grades at the Svenska normallyceum, a Helsinki gymnasium for Swedish-speaking boys, from which he graduated in 1926. In the same year he enrolled at the University of Helsinki, planning to major in astronomy. He switched to mathematics, graduating in 1930 in mathematics, with astronomy and physics as minor subjects. From 1927 to 1929, he worked as a computational assistant at the astronomical observatory of the University of Helsinki. He studied probability theory under J. W. Lindeberg, who is now known for Lindeberg's condition for the central limit theorem. He wrote his (1934) dissertation under the supervision of Rolf Nevanlinna; his thesis studied Riemann surfaces and their uniformization. In the Nevanlinna theory of the values of meromorphic functions, Elfving's results were praised by Drasin.
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