Mathematician:Herbert Ellis Robbins

Mathematician

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 Hassler Whitney)

Books and Papers

• 1941: What is Mathematics? (with Richard Courant)
  • 1996: What is Mathematics?, 2nd ed. (with Richard Courant and Ian Stewart)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Herbert Ellis Robbins": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive