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Sir Harold Jeffreys (22 avril 1891-18 mars 1989) est un mathématicien et un statisticien, mais surtout un géophysicien et un astronome britannique.
Sir Harold Jeffreys, FRS (22 April 1891 – 18 March 1989) was a British geophysicist who made significant contributions to mathematics and statistics. His book, Theory of Probability , which was first published in 1939, played an important role in the revival of the objective Bayesian view of probability .
Sir Harold Jeffreys (born April 22, 1891, Fatfield, Durham, England—died March 18, 1989, Cambridge) was a British astronomer and geophysicist noted for his wide variety of scientific contributions.
SIR HAROLD JEFFREYS, who died on 18 March, was one of the main architects of modem geophysics. In the distinguished English tradition of applied mathematics, he established with contemporary ...
Toutefois, l'idée que l'on avait du noyau à cette époque était erronée car on le supposait entièrement solide. C'est le Britannique Harold Jeffreys (1891-1989) qui, en 1926, modifia cette conception d'une Terre entièrement solide que lord Kelvin avait proposée une...
1 déc. 1990 · Harold Jeffreys stood out among the small group of pioneers who developed the physical study of the Earth from its primitive condition at the beginning of the 20th century to its state at the launch of the first Sputnik.
Harold Jeffreys was one of this century’s greatest applied mathematicians, using mathematics as a means of under standing the physical world. Principally he was a geo physicist, although statisticians may feel that his greatest contribution was to the theory of probability.
