Per Martin-Löf, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Per Martin-Löf

Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistician

Date of Birth: 08-May-1942

Place of Birth: Jakob, Sweden

Profession: mathematician, ornithologist, university teacher, statistician, philosopher

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Per Erik Rutger Martin-Löf (, Swedish: ['ma???n 'lø?v]; born 8 May 1942) is a Swedish logician, philosopher, and mathematical statistician.
He is internationally renowned for his work on the foundations of probability, statistics, mathematical logic, and computer science.
Since the late 1970s, Martin-Löf's publications have been mainly in logic.
In philosophical logic, Martin-Löf has wrestled with the philosophy of logical consequence and judgment, partly inspired by the work of Brentano, Frege, and Husserl.
In mathematical logic, Martin-Löf has been active in developing intuitionistic type theory as a constructive foundation of mathematics; Martin-Löf's work on type theory has influenced computer science.Until his retirement in 2009, Per Martin-Löf held a joint chair for Mathematics and Philosophy at Stockholm University.His brother Anders Martin-Löf is now emeritus professor of mathematical statistics at Stockholm University; the two brothers have collaborated in research in probability and statistics.
The research of Anders and Per Martin-Löf has influenced statistical theory, especially concerning exponential families, the expectation-maximization method for missing data, and model selection.Per Martin-Löf is an enthusiastic bird-watcher; his first scientific publication was on the mortality rates of ringed birds.