Mathematician:Meyer Abraham Girshick
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Mathematician
Russian mathematician who worked in game theory.
Nationality
Russian-born, later American
History
- Born: 25 July 1908, Russian Empire
- 1922: Emigrated from Russia to United States
- 1932: Obtained B.Sc. from Columbia
- 1934 -- 1937: Student of Harold Hotelling at Columbia
- 1937 -- 1944: Statistician at U.S. Department of Agriculture
- 1944 -- 1945: SRG, Columbia
- 1946 -- 1947: Bureau of Census
- 1948 -- 1955: RAND
- 1948 -- 1955: Professor of Statistics, Stanford
- Died: 2 March 1955 in Palo Alto, California, United States
Publications
- 1954: Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions (with David Blackwell)