Savage

Leonard Jimmie Savage

Born: 20 Nov 1917 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
Died: 1 Nov 1971 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA

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Savage's doctoral thesis was on metric and differential geometry. In 1944 he joined the Statistical Research Group at Columbia University - this move into statistics was suggested by von Neumann.

Savage's book The Foundations of Statistics is important and shows von Neumann's influence and also that of Ramsey. He also wrote How to gamble if you must .

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. The Writings of Leonard Jimmie Savage : A Memorial Selection (Washington, D.C., 1981). 
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