Mathematician:David Harold Blackwell

Mathematician

American mathematician who focused mainly on statistics and game theory.

Nationality

American

History

• Born: April 24, 1919 in Centralia, Illinois, United States
• Died: July 8, 2010 in Berkeley, California

Theorems and Definitions

• Rao-Blackwell-Kolmogorov Theorem (with Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao and Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorov)

Publications

• 1954: Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions (with M.A. Girshick)