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Harold Hotelling

1895 - 1973

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Harold Hotelling (; September 29, 1895 – December 26, 1973) was an American mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. He also developed and named the principal component analysis method widely used in finance, statistics and computer science. He was associate professor of mathematics at Stanford University from 1927 until 1931, a member of the faculty of Columbia University from 1931 until 1946, and a professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1946 until his death. A street in Chapel Hill bears his name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Harold Hotelling is the 672nd most popular mathematician (down from 639th in 2019), the 5,986th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,488th in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Harold Hotelling ranks 672 out of 1,004. Before him are Louis Bachelier, Cesare Arzelà, Richard Montague, Johann Schreck, Đuro Kurepa, and William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker. After him are Abu Said Gorgani, Jan Śniadecki, Pierre-Louis Lions, Arend Heyting, John Hadley, and Jean Bourgain.

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Among people born in 1895, Harold Hotelling ranks 188. Before him are Andrey Andreyevich Andreyev, Erich Abraham, Liane Haid, Nikifor, Conchita Supervía, and Max Valier. After him are Valentin Loos, Erich Buschenhagen, Josef Uridil, Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre, José Díaz, and William Gilmore. Among people deceased in 1973, Harold Hotelling ranks 171. Before him are Gösta Dunker, Erich Srbek, Lauri Lehtinen, Alfred Romer, José Alfredo Jiménez, and Charles Daniels. After him are Armas Toivonen, John Cranko, Alexander Rou, Princess Maria di Grazia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Elizabeth Bowen, and Arturo de Córdova.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Harold Hotelling ranks 5,986 out of 20,380. Before him are Julianna Margulies (1966), Pete Rose (1941), William Henry Conley (1840), Garry Shandling (1949), Frankie Avalon (1940), and James Roday (1976). After him are Julie Adams (1926), Francis Hunter (1894), Finneas O'Connell (1997), Johnny Appleseed (1774), Kristanna Loken (1979), and Robert Z'Dar (1950).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Harold Hotelling ranks 48. Before him are Saunders Mac Lane (1909), Michael Freedman (1951), Leonard Eugene Dickson (1874), Haskell Curry (1900), Oswald Veblen (1880), and Richard Montague (1930). After him are Ken Ribet (1948), Joseph Keller (1923), Daniel Quillen (1940), Gladys West (1930), Solomon W. Golomb (1932), and Gregory Chaitin (1947).

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