Herbert Robbins

Herbert Robbins visiting Purdue in 1966 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?''. 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). Provided by Wikipedia
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    ¿ Qué es la matemática? : una exposición elemental de sus ideas y métodos / by Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

    Published 1979
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    What is mathematics? An elementary approach to ideas and methods / by Courant, Richard, 1888-1972

    Published 1996
    Other Authors: “…Robbins, Herbert, 1915-2001…”
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