Education
University of Copenhagen.
Astronomer mathematician university professor actuary
University of Copenhagen.
He was the first to propose a mathematical theory of Brownian motion. Thiele introduced the cumulants and (in Danish) the likelihood function. Thiele was named by Ronald Fisher, in his (short) list of the greatest statisticians of all time.
lieutenant was through his insurance work that he came into contact with fellow mathematician Jørgen Pedersen Gram.
Thiele was the father of Holger Thiele.
Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.