Mathematician:Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett

Mathematician

English statistician 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 Aylmer Fisher)
• Fisher-Tippett-Gnedenko Theorem (with Ronald Aylmer Fisher and Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko)

Results named for Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Leonard Henry Caleb Tippett can be found here.

Publications

• 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

Also known as

Professionally known as L.H.C. Tippett or, occasionally, L.C. Tippett,