Bibliografia de jerzy neyman biography

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Bibliografia de jerzy neyman biography

Kazimiera came from Kiev and, in fact, Czeslaw and Kazimiera met when he was studying law at Kiev and rented a room in a house run by Kazimiera's mother. Jerzy was the youngest of his parents four children but, since the oldest child Karol was sixteen when Jerzy was born and two girls had by this time died, he was essentially brought up as an only child.

It is worth noting that despite the political situation which existed at the time officially Poland did not exist as a separate countryJerzy was born into a Roman Catholic family which considered itself to be Polish and was certainly Polish speaking.

We should also note that Neyman wrote papers for a few years under the name Splawa-Neyman, but he dropped the first part which is more like a sign of nobility at the age of The Russian version of his name was Yuri Czeslawovich and he was known by this name when he was a student.

As a young boy, Jerzy lived in several different towns: first Bendery, then Kherson, then Melitopol in the Crimea, and by the time he was eight years old the family lived at Simferopol also in the Crimea. Up to the age of ten he was taught at home by a governess and then he entered the local gymnasium.

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