Harold Silverstone

Harold Silverstone (1915–1974) was a New Zealand mathematician and statistician.

Early life and education
He was born on 20 January 1915 in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. His father Mark Woolf Silverstone was a Jewish immigrant from Poland. Harold Silverstone was educated at Otago Boys High School. He later attended the University of Otago where he attained a B.A. in 1934 and an M.A. in 1935. He completed his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1939.

Academic career
He was appointed a lecturer at the Department of Mathematics at the Otago University in 1946. He was appointed as the Statistician to the New Zealand National Service Department in 1940.

Contributions to mathematics
He has made numerous contributions to mathematics, such as independently deriving the Cramér–Rao bound.

Personal life
He was married twice, once to Madge Silverstone and another time to Eleanor Matilda Silverstone.

He was a lifelong member of the New Zealand Communist Party.