doctoral_advisor death_date death_place work_institution birth_place nationality doctoral_students field birth_date known_for residence prizes article_title name alma_mater
rolf nevanlinna 25 march 1984 helsinki , finland helsinki university helsinki , finland finnish elja arjas anders ekholm johan fellman pentti suomela statistics , probability theory 25 june 1908 elfving design of experiments sets , elfving 's theorem in the optimal finland fellow member of the international statistical institute , honorary foreign member of of the royal swedish academy of sciences the institute of mathematical statistics , elected gustav elfving
 erik gustav elfving helsinki university
gustav elfving

erik gustav elfving -lrb- june 25 , 1908 -- march 25 , 1984 -rrb- was a finnish mathematician and statistician .
in statistics , he wrote pioneering papers about the optimal design of experiments .
he made other notable contributions to the mathematical sciences and to finnish universities .
