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.
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- 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
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1916
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