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Dates:
1927-1991
Abstract:  

A Polish-born mathematician who worked in symbolic logic, set theory and computation theory, Emil Leon Post received his doctorate from Columbia in 1920 for a dissertation proving the consistency of the propositional calculus described in Whitehead and Russell's Principia mathematica. He joined the faculty at City College of the City University of New York in 1932, where he remained until his death in 1954. Although illness continually interrupted Post's career, he made important contributions to the concepts of completeness and consistency and to recursive functions, foundational to modern computing theory. In 1936, he introduced the concept of a "Post machine," a sort of precursor to the von Neumann's notion of a program. The Post Papers consist of 8 linear feet of professional correspondence, research notes, and papers, to which have been added a small number of items of biographical interest.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.45
Extent:
4 Linear feet



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Dates:
1937-2000
Abstract:  

One of the most influential statisticians of the twentieth century, John Wilder Tukey (1915-2000) played a key role in both the development and study of statistics. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1939 from Brown University, he joined the faculty at Princeton; in 1945, he also began work at Bell Laboratories. Equally committed to both Princeton and Bell Labs, Tukey chose to work concurrently at both institutions. He was also a consultant for many companies, such as Merck and Company, Xerox Corporation, and the Educational Testing Service, and was a frequent advisor to the government for such programs as the US Census. From 1960 to 1980 he led the statistical component of NBC's election night projections. Among other projects Tukey analyzed Alfred Kinsey's research and examined data on ozone depletion. Tukey made many important contributions to the field of statistics, such as work in time series analysis, exploratory data analysis, and multiple comparisons. Through his work, Tukey developed statistical applications including the Box-and-Whisker Plot, the Stem-and-Leaf Diagram, Cooley-Tukey Fast Fourier Transforms, Tukey's Paired Comparisons and citation and permutated indices. Tukey's influence extends beyond statistics to everyday language: he was the first to use the word "software" in print and coined words such as "bit" and "linear programming." A prolific writer, John W. Tukey penned more than 500 technical papers and reports and published, among numerous other works. His collected papers amount to eight volumes of work. The Tukey Papers provides a comprehensive perspective into Tukey's professional activities from his days as a graduate student until his death in 2000. Among the material is his correspondence and his published and unpublished works. There is abundant material from Tukey's long careers at Bell Laboratories and Princeton University, including extensive lecture notes and syllabi. Also included are copious materials relating to his professional activities with such agencies as the National Research Council, the Army Records Office, Xerox PARC, Merck and Company, the President's Science Advisory Committee, and the National Academy of Sciences.
Call #:  
Mss.Ms.Coll.117
Extent:
169.5 Linear feet
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Akademiia Nauk SSSR (Academy of Sciences of the USSR) | American Academy of Arts and Sciences | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Association of Scientific Workers | American Chemical Society | American College Testing Program | American Institute of Chemical Engineers | American Institute of Physics | American Mathematical Society | American Medical Association | American Petroleum Institute | American Philosophical Society | American Psychological Association | American Society for Information Science | American Society for Quality Control | American Statistical Association | American Telephone and Telegraph Company | Anderson, Edgar, 1897-1969 | Archibald, Raymond Clare, 1875-1957 | Batson, Herbert C. (Herbert Clifford), 1909-1978 | Beale, E. M. L. (Evelyn Martin Lansdowne), 1928-1985 | Bechhofer, Robert E. (Robert Eric), 1919-1996 | Bell Telephone Laboratories, Inc. | Bell, Whitfield J., Jr., 1914-2009 | Belsley, David A., 1939- | Beniger, James R. (James Ralph), 1946-2010 | Bennett, Carl A. (Carl Allen), 1921-2014 | Bolt, Bruce A., 1930-2005 | Bowker, Albert H. (Albert Hosmer), 1919-2008 | Brown University | California Institute of Technology | Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford, Calif.) | Chlorofluoromethanes-Environmental concerns | Cressie, Noel A. C. | Deming, W. Edwards (William Edwards), 1900- | Dempster, Arthur Pentland, 1929- | Disarmament. | Dixon, Wilfrid Joseph, 1915- | Dodge, Harold French, 1893- | Educational Testing Service | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Fisher, Ronald Aylmer, Sir, 1890-1962 | Flood, Merrill Meeks, 1908- | Fourier transformations | Gnanadesikan, Ramanathan, 1932- | Halocarbons | Hamming, R. W. (Richard Wesley), 1915- | History of computing | Hoaglin, David C. (David Caster), 1944- | Kinsey, Alfred C. (Alfred Charles), 1894-1956 | Kruskal, William, 1919-2005 | Logarithms | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mathematics - Tables | Meyerhoff, Howard A. (Howard Augustus) | Mike, Valerie, 1934- | Moe, Henry Allen, 1894-1975 | Moments method (Statistics) | Mosteller, Frederick, 1916- | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | National Assessment of Educational Progess (Project) | National Research Council (U.S.) | National Science Foundation, U.S. | Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994 | Nuclear Weapons - Testing | Parzen, Emanuel, 1929- | Pearson, E. S. (Egon Sharpe), 1895-1980 | Press, Harry | Princeton University | Princeton University | Rao, C. Radhakrishna (Calyampudi Radhakrishna), 1920- | Rousseeuw, Peter J. | Scheffé, Henry, 1907- | Security clearances - United States | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics | Statistics -- Study and teaching | Suppes, Patrick, 1922- | Time-series analysis | Tukey, John W. (John Wilder), 1915-2000 | Tukey, Paul | U.S. Census Bureau | United States. Army Research Office | Velleman, Paul F.,1949- | Wheeler, John Archibald, 1911-2008 | Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964 | Xerox Corporation | Xerox Corporation. Palo Alto Research Center



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Dates:
1936-1964
Abstract:  

These are chiefly working papers on subjects requiring statistical analysis and letters, reports, and papers relating to professional organizations. There is little personal material.
Call #:  
Mss.B.W665
Extent:
61 Linear feet
Subjects:  

Advisory Committee on Statistical Policy (U.S.) | American Association for Public Opinion Research | American Association for the Advancement of Science | American Council on Education | American Educational Research Association | American Institute of Biological Sciences | American Marketing Association | American Mathematical Society | American Ordnance Association | American Philosophical Society | American Society for Quality Control | American Society for Testing Materials | American Society of Human Genetics | American Society of Mechanical Engineers | American Standards Association | American Statistical Association | American Telegraph & Telephone Company | Annals of Mathematical Statistics | Applied Mathematics Group | Applied Mathematics Panel | Army Mathematics Advisory Panel (U.S.) | Army Mathematics Steering Group (U.S.) | Association of Mathematics Teachers of New Jersey | Ballistics. | Biometric Society | Bureau of Labor Statistics (U.S.) | Carnegie Foundation (U.S.) | College Entrance Examination Board. | Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government | Committee on Applied Mathematical Statistics | Committee on Operations Research (U.S.) | Committee on Regional Development of Mathematics | Committee on Statistical Program for the City of New York | Committee on Training and Research in Applied Mathematics | Controllo Della Qualita | Educational Testing Service. | Engineering, Science, and Management War Training Program | Fulbright Awards Committee | Genetics | Institute of Mathematical Statistics. | Inter-American Statistical Institute | International Business Machines Corporation. | International Organization for Standardization | International Statistical Institute. | Journal of Neurophysiology | Life Magazine | Magazine Audience Group | Mathematical Association of America. | Mathematical statistics. | Mathematics -- Societies, etc. | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | National Academy of Sciences (U.S.) | National Bureau of Economic Research (U.S.) | National Quality Control Society | National Research Council (U.S.) | National Research Council (U.S.). Committee for Research in Problems of Sex | National Research Council Commission on Mathematics | National Science Foundation (U.S.) | National Science Foundation (U.S.). | National Science Foundation, U.S. | National Security Resources Board | New Jersey Bell Telephone Company | New York Telephone Company | New York University | Newark College of Engineering | Northwestern University | Office of Ordnance Research (U.S.) | Office of Statistical Standards (U.S.) | Organization of Federal Executive Departments and Agencies | Princeton University | Rand Corporation. | Random House Publishing | Reports. | Rinehart & Company Publishing | Rip Van Winkle Clinic | Russell Sage Foundation | Science -- Societies, etc. | Selective Service System | Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs | Social Science Research Council (U.S.) | Society of Industrial Quality Statisticians | Statistical Research Group | Statistics. | Swarthmore College | System Development Corporation. | The American Weekly | The Department of Health of the City of New York | The Lawrenceville School Fathers Association | The Southern New England Telephone Company | The United States National Commission for UNESCO | Thurstone, Louis Leon, 1887-1955 | Time Magazine | U.S. Atomic Energy Commission | U.S. Office of Education | United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) | United States Army Air Forces | United States Bureau of Ordnance | United States. -- Air Force. -- Systems Command. | United States. Bureau of the Census | United States. Navy | United States. Office of Scientific Research and Development | University of Chicago | University of Pennsylvania | Wiley Publishing | Wilks, S. S. (Samuel Stanley), 1906-1964