István Vincze (mathematician)

István Vincze ( born February 26, 1912 in Szeged, † 18 April 1999) was a Hungarian mathematician who worked mainly in the field of mathematical statistics, and taught.

Life

Vincze graduated in 1935, his mathematics studies at the University of Szeged and worked until 1945 when a Hungarian insurance company. After the Second World War he worked for the Hungarian Ministry of Education. After that, he was one of the founders of the Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, whose director Alfréd Rényi was. Until his retirement in 1980, he was head of the statistics department. He also was a professor of statistics at the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.

Scientific Work

István Vincze first worked in the field of geometry, on which he published several publications, among others, joint work with Paul Erdős. Later he turned to mathematical statistics, in which he made ​​contributions to both the theory and the practice. Special focus of his work were the parameter -free statistics, empirical distribution functions, the Cramér -Rao inequality and the information theory.

Vincze was co-editor of several mathematical journals.

Writings

István Vincze has published over 100 papers in professional journals and wrote ten books.

• Károly Sarkadi, István Vincze: Studies in mathematical statistics. Theory and applications. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1968.
• Mathematical Statistics with industrial applications. Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest 1971.
• On the Cramér - Rao Inequality Fréchet in the Non -Regular Case. In: Contributions to Statistics. Jaroslav Hájek Memorial Volume. Academia, Prague, 1979, pp. 253-262.
• George Csordas, Richard S. Varga, István Vincze: Jensen polynomials with applications to the Riemann ζ -function. In: Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications. No. 153, 1990, pp. 112-135.
• Cramér - Rao type inequality and a problem of mixture of distributions. In: Tatra Mountains Mathematical Publications. Volume. 7, No. 1, 1996, pp. 237-245.