Ester Samuel-Cahn
| Ester Samuel-Cahn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Ester Samuel May 16, 1933 Oslo, Norway |
| Nationality | Israel |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University in Jerusalem |
| Alma mater | Columbia University |
Ester Samuel-Cahn (born May 16, 1933; died November, 2015) was an Israeli statistician and educator. She was a professor emeritus at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1]
Biography
Samuel-Cahn was born in Oslo, Norway. During the Nazi occupation of Norway, in 1942, her father, a rabbi, was warned that he would be arrested by the Germans.[2] He refused to leave in order to try to support his community.[3] In September, her father was ordered to report to the Gestapo office, where he was questioned and later sent to Auschwitz.[3] Later that year, the Nazis were going to arrest the other Jews in Oslo, however Samuel-Cahn's family were moved by members of the underground, Ingebjørg Sletten-Fosstvedt and Sigrid Helliesen Lund, to safety and later to a refugee camp in neutral Sweden.[2] In order to cross the border, Samuel-Cahn and the rest of her family had to hide in trucks used to transport potatoes.[4] In Stockholm, Samuel-Cahn's family found out that her father had been killed in Auschwitz.[2] In 1946, Samuel-Cahn, her mother and brothers moved to Mandatory Palestine (part of which later became Israel).[5]
Samuel-Cahn received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1961.[1] From 1993 to 1995, she was the president of the Israel Statistical Association.[6] In 1989 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[7]
In 2004, Samuel-Cahn won the Israel Prize for her work in statistics.[8] In 2012, she spoke at a memorial ceremony in the Martyrs' Forest in Jerusalem Hills, commemorating Norwegian Jews who died in the Holocaust and remembering those who helped hide and protect Jews in Norway.[9]
She died in November, 2015.[10]
Publications
- Krieger, Abba M.; Pollak, Moshe; Samuel-Cahn, Ester (2010). "Extreme(ly) mean(ingful): Sequential formation of a quality group". The Annals of Applied Probability. 20 (6): 2261–2294. doi:10.1214/10-AAP684. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Krieger, Abba M.; Pollak, Moshe; Samuel-Cahn, Ester (2007). "Select Sets: Rank and File". The Annals of Applied Probability. 17 (1). doi:10.1214/105051606000000691. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Assaf, David; Goldstein, Larry; Samuel-Cahn, Ester (2002). "Ratio Prophet Inequalities When the Mortal Has Several Choices". Annals of Applied Probability. 12 (3): 972–984. doi:10.1214/aoap/1031863177. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Assaf, David; Samuel-Cahn, Ester (1998). "Optimal Multivariate Stopping Rules" (PDF). Journal of Applied Probability. 35: 693–706. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Rinott, Yosef; Samuel-Cahn, Ester (1992-01-01). Optimal stopping values and prophet inequalities for some dependent random variables. Hayward, California: Institute of Mathematical Statistics. doi:10.1214/lnms/1215461961. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Samuel-Cahn, Ester (1984). "Comparison of Threshold Stop Rules and Maximum for Independent Nonnegative Random Variables". The Annals of Probability. 12 (4): 1213–1216. doi:10.1214/aop/1176993150. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- Mertens, Jean-Francois; Samuel-Cahn, Ester; Zamir, Shmuel (1978). "Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Recurrence and Transience of Markov Chains, in Terms of Inequalities". Journal of Applied Probability. 15: 848–851. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
References
- 1 2 "Ester Samuel-Cahn". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculty Research Interests. Retrieved 2015-08-02.
- 1 2 3 "Ester Samuel-Cahn - Holocaust Survivors in Israel: 60 Years Since the Establishment of the State - Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2008 - Yad Vashem". Yad Vashem. 2008. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- 1 2 Green, David B. (16 December 2014). "This Day in Jewish History / Norway chief rabbi who stayed with his flock dies in Auschwitz". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ Samuel-Cahn, Ester; Samuel, Amos (2006). "Rabbi Isaak Samuel, הי"ד Rabbi of Norwegian Jewry" (PDF). Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ Fendel, Hillel (30 April 2008). "Holocaust/Heroism Day Begins Tonight". Arutz Sheva. Retrieved 2015-08-01.
- ↑ Weissman, Ishay. "History of the ISA". Israel Statistical Association. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2016-11-19.
- ↑ "Center members have been awarded distinguished prizes". The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Center for the Study of Rationality. Retrieved 2015-08-02.
- ↑ "Martyrs' Forest Memorial Ceremony for Norwegian Jews Who Perished in the Holocaust". Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael Jewish National Fund. November 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2015.
- ↑ Aderet, Ofer (2015-11-26). "הפרופסורית שפתרה את "בעיית המזכירה"". Haaretz. Retrieved 2016-01-24.