Zbyněk Šidák (24 October 1933 – 12 November 1999) was a Czech mathematician.
Šidák was born and raised in Golčův Jeníkov.
[1] He completed his undergraduate studies in statistics at Charles University in Prague in 1956, received a Ph.D. in 1961, and a DrSc.
[1] Beginning in 1956, and continuing until his death, Šidák was a researcher in the mathematical department of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and spent several years as head of the Department of Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics.
[1] He also served as chief editor of the scholarly journal Applications of Mathematics.