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layout: person nodeid: bookofproofs$Hsu categories: history,20th-century parentid: bookofproofs$604 tags: origin-china orderid: 1910 title: Hsu, Pao-Lu born: 1910 died: 1970 keywords: pao lu hsu,hsu description: Pao-Lu Hsu was a Chinese mathematician who worked in probability theory and statistics. references: bookofproofs$6909 contributors: @J-J-O'Connor,@E-F-Robertson,bookofproofs

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Pao-Lu Hsu was a Chinese mathematician who worked in probability theory and statistics.

Mathematical Profile (Excerpt):

  • Hsu's school education was in Peking and he did not choose mathematics as a career at this stage but rather it was chemistry which he decided to study at university.
  • Hsu passed examinations in 1936 at Peking University and obtained a scholarship to enable him to continue his graduate studies in Britain.
  • Certainly University College, London was an excellent place for Hsu to study as his mathematical interests were in probability and statistics.
  • Hsu's first two papers were published in the Statistical Research Memoirs which were edited by Jerzy Neyman and Egon Pearson.
  • One concerned what is now known as the Behrens-Fisher problem, while the second Hsu examined the problem of optimal estimators of the variance in the Gauss-Markov model.
  • In 1938 Hsu, while still undertaking research for his doctorate, too up a position as lecturer in Egon Pearson's Department.
  • Hsu chose to leave Britain to return to his homeland of China where he was appointed as Professor at Peking University.
  • It was a period of great difficulty and hardship for Hsu.
  • It is a great tribute to Hsu's determination to devote himself to statistics that he managed to continue his research during these difficult war years.
  • Many of his publications on multivariate analysis from this period show that he had been strongly influenced by R A Fisher while at University College.
  • Attempts were made to get Hsu to the United States.
  • During the next two years he taught at the University of California, Columbia University, and the University of North Carolina where he was offered an associate professorship.
  • After spending 1946-47 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in 1947 Hsu returned to his professorship at Peking University.
  • Hsu had poor health from 1950.
  • Hsu died in his home on the campus of Peking University in 1970.

Born 1 September 1910, Beijing, China. Died 18 December 1970, Beijing, China.

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