
John Tukey
John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and the box plot. 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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- New Bedford
- Educated at
- Princeton UniversityBrown University
- Awards
- 🏆 Foreign Member of the Royal Society🏆 James Madison Medal🏆 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Solomon Lefschetz
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Robert P. Abelson📖 Frederick Mosteller
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1915
Born
Birth2000
Died
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- father:
- Ralph Hermon Tukey
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