Quote of the day
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Herbert Robbins
Born: January 12, 1915
Died: February 12, 2001 (aged 86)
Bio: Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields.
Known for:
- What Is Mathematics? (1941)
- Selected Papers (1985)
- Herbert Robbins Selected Papers (1985)
- Introduction to Statistics (1975)