Joseph Leo Doob (February 27, 1910 – June 7, 2004) was an American mathematician, specializing in analysis and probability theory. The theory of martingales...
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martingales. Much of the original development of the theory was done by Joseph Leo Doob among others. Part of the motivation for that work was to show the...
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American entrepreneur in the field of medical science and pharmacology Joseph Leo Doob – mathematician Douglas Durst – real estate magnate Francis Fergusson...
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Philosophy in mathematics in 1941 at the age of 22. His doctoral advisor was Joseph L. Doob. At the time, Blackwell was the seventh African American to earn a Ph...
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attributes the version for prefix codes to a spoken observation in 1955 by Joseph Leo Doob. Kraft's inequality limits the lengths of codewords in a prefix code:...
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(born 1958) Persi Diaconis (born 1945) Hugo Duminil-Copin (born 1985) Joseph Leo Doob (1910–2004) Lester Dubins (1920–2010) Eugene Dynkin (1924–2014) Robert...
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Michael Dine – theoretical physicist William Doherty – entomologist Joseph Leo Doob – mathematician Ronald G. Douglas – mathematician and university provost...
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Cochran 1947 William Feller 1948 Abraham Wald 1949 Jerzy Neyman 1950 Joseph Leo Doob 1951 Paul S. Dwyer 1952 Meyer Abraham Girshick 1953 Morris H. Hansen...
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Marine master gunnery sergeant and recipient of the Medal of Honor. Joseph Leo Doob, 94, American mathematician. Roger Matton, 75, Canadian composer, ethnomusicologist...
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Joseph Leonard Walsh (September 21, 1895 – December 6, 1973) was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the field of analysis. The Walsh function...
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