Born: April 1, 1895, Dunedin, New Zealand.

Died: November 3, 1967, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Higher Education: MA in Mathematics at University of Edinburg (Edinburg, Scotland, United Kingdom).

Main Publications: 

• Aitken, A. C. (1935). “On Least Squares and Linear Combinations of Observations”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 55: 42–48
• Aitken, A. C.; Silverstone, H. (1942). “On the Estimation of Statistical Parameters”. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 61 (2): 186–194
• A. C. Aitken (1963). Gallipoli to the Somme: Recollections of a New Zealand infantryman. Oxford
• Aitken, A. C. (1925). Graduation of observational data (DSc). University of Edinburgh
• Aitken, A. C (1963). Gallipoli to the Somme. Recollections of a New Zealand infantryman, etc. [With a map.]. London.

Known for:

• Aitken’s array
• Aitken’s delta-squared process
• Aitken interpolation.