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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    Tulceas obtained a ‘separable’ process; this gives a rapid proof of Joseph Leo Doob's theorem concerning the existence of a separable modification of a...
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  • entered the University of Illinois and studied under the guidance of Joseph Leo Doob. In 1958, he received his PhD. He became a staff member at the IBM...
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