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John Tukey
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American mathematician (1915-2000)
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- Born
- 1915
- Died
- 2000
- Works
- 17
Top works
- Lectures by Aurel Wintner
- Reliability for the law of comparative judgment
- The Place of statistical methods in biological and chemical experimentation
- Final report on new approaches to automatic and semiautomatic indexing and a citation index for statistical methodology under National Science Foundation Grant NSF GN709
- Data analysis and regression
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1915-06-16 ) June 16, 1915, New Bedford, Massachusetts , U.S.
- Died
- July 26, 2000 (2000-07-26) (aged 85), New Brunswick, New Jersey , U.S.
- Education
- Brown University ( BA , MS ) Princeton University ( PhD )
- Awards
- Wilks Memorial Award (1965) National Medal of Science (1973) Shewhart Medal (1976) IEEE Medal of Honor (1982) Deming Medal (1982) Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1991)
- Fields
- Topology
- Institutions
- Bell Labs Princeton University
- Thesis
- On Denumerability in Topology
- Doctoral advisor
- Solomon Lefschetz
- Doctoral students
- David R. Brillinger Kai Lai Chung Arthur Dempster Leo Goodman Karen Kafadar Thomas E. Kurtz Paul Meier Frederick Mosteller John A. Hartigan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- New Bedford
- Place of death
- New Brunswick
- Occupation
- politician
- Educated at
- Princeton University
- Employer
- Bell Labs
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Solomon Lefschetz
- Field of work
- computer science
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- member of
- American Philosophical Society
- date of birth
- 1915-06-16
- date of death
- 2000-07-26
- Erdős number
- 2
- cause of death
- infarction
- name in native language
- John Tukey
- birth name
- John Wilder Tukey
- manner of death
- natural causes
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
John Wilder Tukey (/ˈtuːki/; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm, the box plot and for laying the foundations of the field of exploratory data analysis. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name. He is also credited with coining the term bit and the first published use of the word software.
Biography
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