Mathematician:John Wilder Tukey

American mathematician working mainly in the field of statistics.

Best known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: June 16, 1915, New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA
 * Died: July 26, 2000, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Theorems and Inventions

 * Tukey Range Test
 * Definition:Tukey Lambda Distribution
 * Tukey Test of Additivity
 * Teichmüller-Tukey Lemma (also known as Tukey-Teichmüller Lemma and Tukey's Lemma) (with Oswald Teichmüller)
 * Restricted Tukey-Teichmüller Theorem (with Oswald Teichmüller)

Books and Papers

 * 1940: Convergence and Uniformity in Topology
 * 1977: Exploratory Data Analysis