Mathematician:John Wilder Tukey

Mathematician
American mathematician working mainly in the field of statistics.

Made contributions in the fields of nonparametric methods, robustness studies and interpretation of computer graphics.

Developed the use of the box plot, box-and-whisker diagrams and stem-and-leaf displays.

Best known for development of the FFT algorithm.

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
 * Tukey Lambda Distribution
 * Tukey Test of Additivity
 * Tukey's Lemma (still sometimes referred to as Tukey-Teichmüller Lemma)
 * Restricted Tukey's Theorem

Publications

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