Helmert's work in the theory of errors

DOI10.1007/BF00374700zbMath0831.01004WikidataQ56115586 ScholiaQ56115586MaRDI QIDQ1897791

Oscar B. Sheynin

Publication date: 12 February 1996

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

method of least squaresnormal distributiongeodesyJames Clerk Maxwellpaired observationserror theorytheory of errorsPierre Simon Laplaceadjustment of triangulationErnst AbbeFeodosy Nikolaewich Krasovskygeodetic observationsJules Bienaymépartition of variance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geodesy, mapping problems (86A30) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of statistical mechanics (82-03) Error analysis and interval analysis (65G99)

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