Some personal recollections of Harald Cramér on the development of statistics and probability (Q5903454)

First a curriculum vitae and a photo of the late Harald Cramér (1893- 1985) are presented followed by the presentation of a taped seminar on his personal recollections and personal conversations (March 1970). Some of those people mentioned who have played a part ``in those tremendous changes in the last 50 years''. A more detailed account by Cramér himself may be found in his paper ``Half a century with probability theory: some personal recollections'' [Ann. Probab. 4, 509-546 (1976; Zbl 0351.60001)]. As additional information I found in the present paper: ``In England we had the biometric school headed by Karl Pearson but their mathematics didn't appeal very much to us at that time. We thought it was entirely unrigorous and directed more toward descriptive statistics, especially in biometric fields, than statistical inference. Hardly any theory at all of statistical inference existed at that time'' and later ``I personally never met Karl Pearson... I met his friend and collaborator William Elderton''.