Mathematician:Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett

English statistician, professionally known as L.H.C. Tippett or, occasionally, L.C. Tippett, who pioneered extreme value theory. Died tragically young, killed in a traffic accident at the age of 83.

Nationality
British

History

 * Born: 8 May 1902, in London, England
 * Died: 9 November 1985 St Austell, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Fisher-Tippett Distribution (with Ronald A. Fisher)

Books and Papers

 * 1927: Random Sampling Numbers
 * 1931: Methods of Statistics (further editions 1948, 1952)
 * 1960: Statistical Methods for Textile Technologists (with T. Murphy and K. P. Norris) (further editions 1963, 1973, 1979)
 * 1969: A Portrait of the Lancashire Textile Industry