
Leonard Jimmie Savage
Leonard Jimmie Savage was an American mathematician and statistician. Economist Milton Friedman said Savage was "one of the few people I have met whom I would unhesitatingly call a genius."
Background
- Born in
- Detroit
- Educated at
- University of MichiganCentral High School
- Awards
- 🏆 Guggenheim Fellowship🏆 COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship🏆 Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Doctoral Advisors
- 🎓 Sumner Byron Myers
- Doctoral Students
- 📖 Roy Radner📖 Don Berry📖 Morris H. DeGroot
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1917
Born
Birth1971
Died
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