Mathematician:Herbert Ellis Robbins

American mathematician and statistician who did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields.

Nationality
American

History

 * Born: 12 January 1915 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, USA
 * Died: 12 February 2001 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA

Theorems and Inventions

 * Robbins Algebra
 * Robbins Theorem
 * Robbins Lemma
 * Robbins' Problem of Optimal Stopping
 * Whitney-Robbins Synthesis (with )

Books and Papers

 * 1941: What is mathematics? (with )