About W. Sealy Gosset

August 2011. Dublin. Guinness Beer Brewing Industry.

Sir W. Sealy Gosset was a non academic statistician who applied his statistical knowledge both in the brewery and on the farm of Guinness business.

To prevent disclosure of confidential information, Guinness prohibited its employees from publishing any papers regardless of the contained information.

However, after explaining that his mathematical and philosophical conclusions were of no possible practical use to competing brewers, Gosset was allowed to publish them, but under the pseudonym "Student" (Font: Wiki).

Research interest

Former research interest has focused on computational probability and statistics with particular regard to simulations of stochastic processes via Monte Carlo methods, also on parallel systems, and the study of their statistics as the first passage time. These statistics have been analyzed also by developing ad hoc numerical routines to solve integral equations involving special pdf's. Current research involves development and applications of symbolic and combinatorial methods in probability and statistics.

Teaching

Undergraduate courses of probability and statistics for mathematicians, computer scientists, engineerings and biologists. Advanced courses of probability and statistics for Masters and PhD. Some experience with numerical analysis and calculus.