Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (28 January 1892 – 18 August 1960) was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory .
4-558: Bonferroni studied piano and conducting in Turin Conservatory and at University of Turin under Giuseppe Peano and Corrado Segre , where he obtained his laurea . During this time he also studied at University of Vienna and ETH Zurich . During World War I, he was an officer among the engineers. Bonferroni held a position as assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin , and in 1923 took up
8-734: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a statistician is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Turin Conservatory The Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi , also known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi or Conservatorio Torino and more commonly known in English as the Turin Conservatory , is a music conservatory in Turin , Italy . It should not be confused with
12-785: The Milan Conservatory or Como Conservatory ; schools which have also been known as the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi. The Turin Conservatory was founded on 11 June 1866 with the name Liceo Musicale . In 1887 its name was changed to the Istituto Musicale when composer Giovanni Bolzoni became director of the school. In 1936 it was enlarged to become the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Giuseppe Verdi. Other directors of
16-714: The chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute of the University of Bari . In 1933 he transferred to University of Florence , where he held his chair until his death. Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound ), and for the Bonferroni correction in statistics (which he did not invent, but which is related to the Bonferroni inequalities). This article about an Italian mathematician
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