Statistics Seminar
| Date/Time: | Monday, 09 Apr 2012 from 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm |
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| Location: | Snedecor 3105 |
| Cost: | Free |
| URL: | www.stat.iastate.edu |
| Contact: | Jeanette La Grange |
| Phone: | 515-294-3440 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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David Blackwell may have been the greatest African-American mathematician. I will briefly sketch the story of how he overcame the discrimination of mid-twentieth century America to become a famous and popular professor at the University of California, Berkeley. Then I will describe some of his contributions to mathematics and statistics.