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

Results named for John Wilder Tukey can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for John Wilder Tukey can be found here.

Publications

• 1940: Convergence and Uniformity in Topology
• 1961: Discussion, Emphasizing the Connection between Analysis of Variance and Spectrum Analysis (Technometrics Vol. 3: pp. 191 – 219)  www.jstor.org/stable/1266112
• 1963: The Examination and Analysis of Residuals (Technometrics Vol. 5: pp. 141 – 160) (with F.J. Anscombe)  www.jstor.org/stable/1266059
• 1977: Exploratory Data Analysis

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "John Wilder Tukey": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Tukey, John Wilder (1915-2000)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Tukey, John Wilder (1915-2000)