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Herbert Ellis Robbins
Herbert Robbins visiting Purdue in 1966
Born
(1915-01-12)January 12, 1915
New Castle, Pennsylvania, US
Died
February 12, 2001(2001-02-12) (aged 86)
Princeton, New Jersey, US
Alma mater
Harvard University
Scientific career
Institutions
University of North Carolina
Columbia University
Rutgers University
Thesis
On the Classification of the Maps of a 2-Complex into a Space(1938)
Doctoral advisor
Hassler Whitney
Doctoral students
Raghu Raj Bahadur
Cyrus Derman
David Siegmund
Herbert Wilf
Gopinath Kallianpur
Herbert Ellis Robbins (January 12, 1915 – February 12, 2001) was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields.
He was the co-author, with Richard Courant, of What is Mathematics?, a popularization that is still (as of 2012[update]) in print. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem. The well-known unsolved problem of minimizing in sequential selection the expected rank of the selected item under full information, sometimes referred to as the fourth secretary problem, also bears his name: Robbins' problem (of optimal stopping).
Herbert Ellis Robbins (January 12, 1915 – February 12, 2001) was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory...
longstanding problem posed by HerbertRobbins, namely, whether all Robbins algebras are Boolean algebras. EQP project. Robbins Algebras Are Boolean. Argonne...
general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with HerbertRobbins. His research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics...
stochastic gradient descent and batched gradient descent. In 1951, HerbertRobbins and Sutton Monro introduced the earliest stochastic approximation methods...
thereafter, HerbertRobbins posed the Robbins conjecture, namely that the Huntington equation could be replaced with what came to be called the Robbins equation...
the Robbins–Monro and Kiefer–Wolfowitz algorithms introduced respectively in 1951 and 1952. The Robbins–Monro algorithm, introduced in 1951 by Herbert Robbins...
statistics from Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was HerbertRobbins. After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he...
interviews with Robbins and his colleagues, premiered on PBS in 2009 and won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award the same year. Robbins was born Jerome Wilson...
map Marching squares Planform Tensor field TERCOM Courant, Richard, HerbertRobbins, and Ian Stewart. What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas...
In statistics, the Robbins lemma, named after HerbertRobbins, states that if X is a random variable having a Poisson distribution with parameter λ, and...
Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2014. Courant, Richard, HerbertRobbins, Ian Stewart, What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas...
generalized to the multi-armed bandit, on which early work was done by HerbertRobbins in 1952. A methodology for designing experiments was proposed by Ronald...
ISBN 0-486-63829-4. "The Algebra of Sets", pp 16—23. Courant, Richard, HerbertRobbins, Ian Stewart, What is mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas...
Statistics at SUNY Stony Brook. There he taught and he worked with HerbertRobbins on AFOSR sponsored research and as a consultant at the Brookhaven National...
What is mathematics? : an elementary approach to ideas and methods. HerbertRobbins ([4th ed.] ed.). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 267....
of a triangle is a special case of a theorem of Richard Courant and HerbertRobbins that any plane area can be subdivided into four equal parts by two...
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success as a climber, Robbins founded an eponymous outdoor apparel company with his wife Liz Robbins. Royal Robbins, LLC Royal Robbins LLC is a San Francisco...
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