Ladislaus Bortkiewicz

Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz was a Russian economist and statistician of Polish ancestry. He wrote a book showing how the Poisson distribution, a discrete probability distribution, can be useful in applied statistics, and he made contributions to mathematical economics.

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Who was born first?

• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz and Henrietta Swan Leavitt were born the same year
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz and Josep Comas i Solà were born the same year
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz and Robert Andrews Millikan were born the same year
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz and René de Saussure were born the same year
• Ladislaus Bortkiewicz and Theodore William Richards were born the same year

Timeline

1. Henrietta Swan LeavittJuly 4, 1868 – December 12, 1921
2. Josep Comas i SolàDecember 17, 1868 – December 2, 1937
3. Ladislaus Bortkiewicz (this page)August 7, 1868 – July 15, 1931
4. René de SaussureMarch 17, 1868 – December 2, 1943
5. Robert Andrews MillikanMarch 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953
6. Theodore William RichardsJanuary 31, 1868 – April 2, 1928

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