I. J. Good
Irving John Good was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was a professor at Virginia Tech.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- London
- Educated at
- University of CambridgeJesus CollegeHaberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
- Awards
- 🏆 Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 G.H. Hardy
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 David L. Banks📖 David B. Osteyee📖 Steven D. Simmons
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"The minimum I. Q. necessary for one to grasp the concepts of Statistics required for the undergraduate degree is 120."
Works & Publications
No works or publications documented yet.
Timeline
1916
Born
Birth2009
Died
Death
Influenced By
Thinkers whose ideas shaped I.'s philosophy
No known influences documented.
Influenced
Thinkers whose work was shaped by I.'s ideas
No influenced thinkers documented yet.
Source Attribution
Information about I. J. Good is sourced from curated knowledge bases and cross-referenced for accuracy. Influence relationships are scored by thematic overlap and historical plausibility.
Related Thinkers
See all →
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"It is obvious: The past was once the future and the future will become the past."
— Richard Hamming"Math is perfect , but mathematicians are not , hence the mathematics that mathematicians do is influenced b…"
— Doron Zeilberger"A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easi…"
— Leonardo da Vinci"Our mathematical concepts, structures, ideas have been invented as tools to organise the phenomena of the p…"
— Hans Freudenthal"There is much evidence that people are not rational, in the economist’s sense; nor do they take into accoun…"
— Dennis Lindley"Parents always live a less pure life than their children, because they condone everything they do. The abil…"
— Stig Dagerman
