| LC control no. | n 84198750 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Robbins, Herbert |
| Variant(s) | Robbins, Herbert Ellis |
| Birth date | 1915-01-12 |
| Death date | 2001-02-12 |
| Field of activity | Topology Statistics |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians |
| Found in | His Selected papers, c1985: CIP t.p. (Herbert Robbins) CIP galley (Dept. of Statistics, Columbia Univ.) LC data base, 2-15-85 (hdg.: Robbins, Herbert Ellis; usage: Herbert Robbins) New York times, Feb. 15, 2001: obituaries (Dr. Herbert E. Robbins; statistician; b. Jan. 12, 1915 in New Castle, Pa.; d. Feb. 12, 2001 in Princeton, N.J.) Wikipedia, July 30, 2024: (Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician; did research in topology, measure theory, statistics; the Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him; also named after him are Robbins algebras, the Robbins theorem, the Whitney-Robbins synthesis and Robbins' problem (of optimal stopping); PhD from Harvard University) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert%5FRobbins> |
| Associated language | eng |
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