Oral history interview with John Wilder Tukey, 1984 Apr. 11.

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Oral history interview with John Wilder Tukey, 1984 Apr. 11.

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Tukey tells something about his background and about how he came to do graduate work at Princeton, where he earned his Ph.D. in topology. Tukey talks about his wartime work (at Fire Control Research in Princeton) and how as a result of that work statistics came to be his principal interest. He talks about fellow mathematicians, including Frederick Mosteller, Charles Winsor, Sam Wilks, and George Snedecor. Tukey also talks about the social atmosphere at the Graduate College and at Fine Hall, in the period when he was a graduate student.

Transcript : 18 p.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

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Topologist. From the description of Oral history interview with John Wilder Tukey, 1984 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 154352847 From the description of Oral history interview with John Wilder Tukey, 1984 Apr. 11. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63309558 One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. ...