Category:Jacob Wolfowitz

**Jacob Wolfowitz**
	American statistician (1910-1981)
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Date of birth	19 March 1910; Warsaw (Russian Empire), United States of America
Date of death	16 July 1981; Tampa
Country of citizenship	United States of America; Congress Poland;
Educated at	New York University (Doctor of Philosophy, –1942); City University of New York (–1931);
Doctoral advisor	Donald Alexander Flanders;
Doctoral student	Jack Kiefer (1952); Lionel Weiss (1953); Albert H. Bowker (1949); Howard Levene (1953); Samuel Kotz (1960); Gottfried E. Noether (1949); Gary Lee Hensler (1974); Sol Kaufman (1965);
Occupation	mathematician; statistician; university teacher; computer scientist;
Employer	Cornell University (1951–1970); University of South Florida (1978–1981); The Statistical Research Group of World War II (1942–1945); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1945–1946); Columbia University (1946–1951); University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (1970–1978);
Member of	American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Sciences; Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1943–); Econometric Society (Fellow of the Econometric Society, 1957–);
Position held	chairperson (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1959–1959);
Field of work	probability theory; non-parametric statistics; mathematics; statistics; information theory;
Child	Paul Wolfowitz;
Notable work	Wald–Wolfowitz runs test; Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality;
Award received	Guggenheim Fellowship (1965); Fellow of the Econometric Society (1957); Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1943); Claude E. Shannon Award (1979);
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	Q722273; ISNI: 0000000110598358; VIAF ID: 44378433; GND ID: 1027739113; Library of Congress authority ID: n79147927; Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12375601m; IdRef ID: 032796137; NL CR AUT ID: mzk2013773684; SELIBR ID: 240568; Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID: 093396449; NUKAT ID: n98003474; Libris-URI: dbqsvt6x2dsklt3; National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007437677905171; Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 4843
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