Quote of the day
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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)