Mathematician:Leonard Jimmie Savage

Mathematician
American mathematician who worked on metric and differential geometry, calculus of variations and statistics.

Nationality
American

History

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

Publications

 * 1941: The Application of Vectorial Methods to the Study of Distance Spaces
 * 1943: On the Crossing of Extremals at Focal Points
 * 1948: The Utility Analysis of Choices Involving Risk (with )
 * 1949: Application of the Radon-Nikodym Theorem to the Theory of Sufficient Statistics (with )
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 * 1954:
 * 1965: How to gamble if you must: Inequalities for Stochastic Processes (with )
 * 1970: On rereading 
 * 1972: The Foundations of Statistics (2nd revised edition)

Also known as
Originally given the name Leonard Ogashevitz, but because of his mother's illness was given the name Jimmie by a nurse at the hospital. Consequently adopted the name.

His father changed his surname from Ogashevitz to Savage in $1920$. Leonard Ogashevitz adopted the name Leonard Jimmie Savage when involved in classified war-work.