Carlo Emilio Bonferroni

Carlo E. Bonferroni
160px Carlo Emilio Bonferroni
Born	(1892-01-28)28 January 1892 Bergamo, Italy
Died	Florence, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Fields	Mathematics Statistics
Institutions	University of Florence
Alma mater	University of Bergamo
Academic advisors	Giuseppe Peano Corrado Segre
Notable students	Carlo Benedetti

Carlo Emilio Bonferroni (28 January 1892 – 18 August 1960) was an Italian mathematician who worked on probability theory. Carlo Emilio Bonferroni was born in Bergamo on 28 January 1892 and died on 18 August 1960 in Florence. He studied in Turin, held a post as assistant professor at the Turin Polytechnic, and in 1923 took up the chair of financial mathematics at the Economics Institute in Bari. In 1933 he transferred to Florence where he held his chair until his death.

Bonferroni is best known for the Bonferroni inequalities (a generalization of the union bound) and the Bonferroni correction in statistics. However, although his inequalities can be used to derive the Bonferroni correction, the correction itself was not explicitly documented until the later work of Dunn in the 1960s.

Further reading

• Material about Bonferroni by Michael Dewey.