Marc Barbut et l'Espagne
Abstracts
M. Barbut’s first memories of Spain come from his childhood, in 1936. At that time, the beginning of the Spanish Civil War stopped the development of Spanish Statistics, and some of the institutions created a few years earlier disappeared. Nevertheless, Spanish Statistics had already reached a certain international recognition, as is shown by the 20th IIS meeting, which took place in the republican Madrid in 1931. This new statistical movement had its origins both in the Spanish mathematical renovation inspired by Rey Pastor, and in favorable conditions for new academic institutions during the 1920s, due to the neutral position of Spain in the First World War.
The first time M. Barbut made a professional visit to Spain was in 1967, a period in which Spanish society was changing very quickly. He was invited by Torras Ibern, a professor of Statistics from the University of Barcelona. In 1997, when Spanish democracy was already consolidated, M. Barbut began his collaborations with many Spanish institutions: “Spanish University for Distance Education” (UNED), “Spanish Centre for Social Research” (CIS), the French cultural institution “Casa de Velázquez”, the “National Institute of Statistics” (INE), and the “History of Statistics and Probability Spanish Association” (AHEPE). His academic career and activity as a whole, deserving the acknowledgment of Spanish community of sociologists and statisticians, was awarded by a “Honorary Degree” in the UNED in 2005.
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Keywords :
histoire de la statistique, Marc Barbut, statistique en Espagne, statistique et sociologieReferences
Bibliographical reference
Jose-Maria Arribas, “Marc Barbut et l'Espagne”, Mathématiques et sciences humaines, 193 | 2011, 7-18.
Electronic reference
Jose-Maria Arribas, “Marc Barbut et l'Espagne”, Mathématiques et sciences humaines [Online], 193 | Printemps 2011, Online since 07 June 2011, connection on 14 September 2026. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/msh/11944; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/msh.11944
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