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That liberty is a great thing we may know from our own feelings, and we may likewise judge so from the conduct of the white-people, in the late war.
John Tukey
Born: June 16, 1915
Died: July 26, 2000 (aged 85)
Bio: John Wilder Tukey was an American mathematician best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot.
Known for:
- The collected works of John W. Tukey (1984)
- Convergence and uniformity in topology (1940)
- Graphical Analysis of Multi-Response Data (1998)
- Index to statistics and probability (1973)