Category:Alexander Aitken

**Alexander Aitken**
	New Zealand mathematician (1895-1967)
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Name in native language	Alexander Craig Aitken;
Date of birth	1 April 1895; Dunedin; Alexander Craig Aitken
Date of death	3 November 1967; Edinburgh
Place of burial	Warriston Cemetery (Crematorium, 55°58′14.077″N 3°11′45.316″W);
Country of citizenship	New Zealand;
Educated at	University of Edinburgh (1923–1926); University of Otago (1913–1920); Otago Boys' High School (1908–1913);
Doctoral advisor	E. T. Whittaker;
Doctoral student	Hans Schneider (1952); Henry Daniels (1943); Donald Livingstone (1949); Leonard Roy Shenton (1940); Nora Calderwood (1931); James Towers Campbell (1932); Alastair James Howie (1952); David Boss Hunter (1958); John Leonard Mott (1957); William Wallace Muir (1952); David Earle Bailey (1953); Florence Mary Harding (1934); Harold Silverstone (1939); Henri Theodore Gonin (1935); Alexander Fairley Buchan (1939); Leon Solomon (1944); Walter Frederick Kibble (1938); Hendrik Stefanus Steyn (1947); Ragy Halim Makar (1947); Arthur Asquith Rayner (1947); …;
Occupation	mathematician; statistician; university teacher; writer; politician;
Employer	University of Edinburgh (1925–1965); Otago Boys' High School (1920–1923); Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (1915–1917);
Member of	Royal Society (1936–); Royal Society of Literature (1964); Royal Society of Edinburgh (1925); Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1947–);
Field of work	mathematics; statistics; mathematical statistics; numerical analysis; linear algebra;
Spouse	Mary Winifred Betts Aitken;
Notable work	Aitken's delta-squared process; Aitken interpolation;
Award received	Fellow of the Royal Society (1936); Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1925); Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1964); Makdougall Brisbane Prize (1930); Gunning Victoria Jubilee Prize (1948); Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1947);
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	Q621679; ISNI: 0000000118040260; VIAF ID: 32151038; GND ID: 128039515; Library of Congress authority ID: n82159738; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 13488766q; IdRef ID: 074732943; Libraries Australia ID: 36577074; NL CR AUT ID: vse2011663259; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 06747831X; NORAF ID: 90794693, 1028735; NUKAT ID: n98096534; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ID: 30357; PLWABN ID: 9812830635505606; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007601353905171; NACSIS-CAT author ID: DA04765349; Open Library ID: OL4498534A; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 18577
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