Blackwell, David, 1919-2010
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- His Some properties of Markoff chains ... 1941.
- Statistics, probability and game theory, c1996:t.p. (David Blackwell) p. v (b. Apr. 24, 1919 in Centralia, Ill.; Statistics Dept., Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley)
- National Visionary Leadership Project www site, viewed on July 15, 2010(David Harold Blackwell; theoretical statistician and mathematician, first African-American member of the National Academy of Sciences)
- New York times WWW site, July 19, 2010(in obituary published July 16: David Blackwell; b. David Harold Blackwell, Apr. 24, 1919, Centralia, Ill.; d. July 8, Berkeley, Calif., aged 91; 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)
- LC database, July 19, 2010(hdg.: Blackwell, David Harold, 1919- )
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. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first African American full professor (with tenure) at the University of California, Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D. in mathematics. In 2012, President Barack Obama posthumously awarded Blackwell the National Medal of Science. Blackwell was also a pioneer in textbook writing. He wrote one of the first Bayesian statistics textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics. By the time he retired, he had published over 90 papers and books on dynamic programming, game theory, and mathematical statistics.
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