Leonard Jimmie Savage

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."

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Lifespan
1917 – 1971
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Career Journey

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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