Henry Mann

For other people named Henry Mann, see Henry Mann (disambiguation).

Henry Berthold Mann (27 October 1905, Vienna – 1 February 2000, Tucson)[1] was a professor of mathematics and statistics at the Ohio State University. Mann proved the Schnirelmann-Landau conjecture in number theory, and as a result earned the 1946 Cole Prize. He and his student developed the ("Mann-Whitney") U-statistic of nonparametric statistics.[2] Mann published the first mathematical book on the design of experiments: Mann (1949).[3]

  1. ^ Henry Berthold Mann: 1905-2000, Ohio State University, Department of Mathematics, archived from the original on 2011-01-02
  2. ^ Olson, John (1977). "Henry B. Mann (with photograph)". In Zassenhaus, Hans (ed.). Number theory and algebra: Collected papers dedicated to Henry B. Mann, Arnold E. Ross, and Olga Taussky-Todd. New York-London: Academic Press [Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers]. pp. xx–xxv. ISBN 0-12-776350-3. MR 0469653. Archived from the original on 2011-01-02. Retrieved 2011-01-20. (The web-link is to a slightly updated edition of the biography.)
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