Ene-Margit Tiit
Ene–Margit Tiit (born 22 April 1934 in Tartu) is an Estonian mathematician and statistician who became the founding president of the Estonian Statistical Society.
Early life and education
[edit]Tiit is the daughter of mathematician Arnold Humal and was born in Tartu on 22 April 1934. She went to a high school in Tallinn and completed her undergraduate studies in 1957 at the University of Tartu, then called Tartu State University.[1] She remained at the same university for her doctoral work, defending a dissertation on Ridade ümberjärjestamisest (On rearrangements of series) in 1963 with Gunnar Kangro as her doctoral supervisor.[1][2]
Career
[edit]After briefly working at the Estonian Agricultural Academy before her doctorate, Tiit returned to the University of Tartu as a faculty member.[3] There, the topics of her research included "mathematical statistics, population sciences, sociology and anthropology".[1] She founded the Department of Mathematical Statistics there, and became its first regular professor.[4] The Estonian Statistical Society was founded in September 1992, soon after the fall of the Soviet Union, and Tiit became its first president.[1]
She retired in 1999, but continued to work as a senior methodologist for Statistics Estonia.[3]
Recognition
[edit]In 1995 the University of Helsinki gave Tiit an honorary doctorate. She is also a fourth class member of the Order of the White Star.[4] She is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "The Estonian Statistical Society", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, retrieved 2019-02-20
- ^ Ene-Margit Tiit at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c Curriculum vitae, Estonian Research Information System, retrieved 2019-02-20
- ^ a b Ene-Margit Tiit – 75 (in Estonian), University of Tartu, archived from the original on 2009-05-02, retrieved 2019-02-21
- 1934 births
- Living people
- Estonian statisticians
- Estonian mathematicians
- Women statisticians
- Women mathematicians
- University of Tartu alumni
- Academic staff of the University of Tartu
- Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class
- Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute
- Scientists from Tartu