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William Birnbaum

was born 121 years ago

18 October 1903

Zygmunt Wilhelm Birnbaum was a Polish-born American mathematician and statistician who contributed to functional analysis, nonparametric testing and estimation, probability inequalities, survival distributions, competing risks, and reliability theory.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Birnbaum/