David Blackwell - Wikipedia
David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics. [1]
David Blackwell | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica
David Blackwell, American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics and who broke racial barriers when he was named (1965) the first African American member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.
David Blackwell (1919 - 2010) - MacTutor History of Mathematics
2010年7月8日 · David Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who worked in game theory, probability theory, information theory and Bayesian statistics. He was the first African-American member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
David H. Blackwell: A Profile of Inspiration and Perseverance
2020年7月17日 · Born April 24, 1919 to a homemaker and an Illinois Central Railroad worker in Centralia, IL, David H. Blackwell would become the first African-American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, seventh overall in the United States (Agwu, Smith, & Barry, 2003).
David Blackwell, Scholar of Probability, Dies at 91 - The New York Times
2010年7月17日 · David Blackwell, a statistician and mathematician who wrote groundbreaking papers on probability and game theory and was the first black scholar to be admitted to the National Academy of Sciences,...
David Blackwell 1919--2010 - Google Scholar
Professor of Statistics and Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley. Verified email at stat.berkeley.edu - Homepage. probability statistics logic game theory dynamic programming.
Pioneering Mathematician David Blackwell, 1919-2010 : The Two-Way - NPR
2010年7月19日 · Blackwell, an expert on game theory who died at age 91, was the first African-American to get tenure as a faculty member at University of California, Berkeley.
David Blackwell’s Enduring Legacy - Simons Institute for the …
2023年11月15日 · For this story, we will call it Blackwell’s approachability theorem — to highlight David Blackwell, the UC Berkeley mathematician who proved it and published it in 1956. The theorem goes by many names, as researchers have discovered and rediscovered it …
Blackwell, David - INFORMS
2010年7月8日 · Born and raised in Illinois, David Blackwell was a pioneering statistician and game theorist. In addition to the monumental work that defined his career, Blackwell also fought and broke numerous racial barriers and was the first African American to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. Blackwell enrolled at the University of ...
Eminent statistician David Blackwell has died at 91
2010年7月15日 · David H. Blackwell, an eminent statistician at UC Berkeley who was the first black admitted to the National Academy of Sciences, died Thursday, July 8, of natural causes at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. He was 91.