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Compactness in General Spaces (+)Generalized ""Sandwich"" Theorems (+) Named and Faceless Values: An Initial Exploration in Memory of Prasanta C. Mahalanobis (+) Some Sèlected Quick and Easy Methods of Statistical Analysis (+) Correlation of Ranges of c... - [LARGE COLLECTION OF OFFPRINTS]
[Various places and printer] ,1945 - 1974. Collection of 24 offprint from various academic journals. All with wrappers (or as issued) and in fine condition. Contained in a black kassett.
A large collection of offprint by American physicist John Tukey known for development of the FFT algorithm and box plot. Tukey's range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, Tukey's test of additivity and Tukey's lemma all bear his name.""John Tukey's whole life was one of public service, and as the preceding quotes make clear, he had profound influence. He was a member of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee for each of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson. He was special in many ways. He merged the scientific, governmental, technological, and industrial worlds more seamlessly than, perhaps, anyone else in the 1900s. His scientific knowledge, creativity, experience, calculating skills, and energy were prodigious. He was renowned for creating statistical concepts and words. JWT's graduate work was in mathematics, but driven by World War II, he left that field to go on to revolutionize the world of the analysis of data. At the end of the war he began a joint industrial-academic career at Bell Telephone Laboratories and at Princeton University. Science and the analysis of data were ubiquitous. This split career continued until he retired in 1985. Even after retirement his technical and scientific work continued at a very high level.He is said to have introduced the terms: ""bit"", ""linear programming"", ""ANOVA"", ""Colonel Blotto"", and was first into print with ""software"". Of these efforts L. Hogben and M. Cartwright wrote, ""The introduction by Tukey of bits for binary digits has nothing but irresponsible vulgarity to commend it."" Tukey's word ""polykay"" was described as ""linguistic miscegenation"" by Kendall and Stuart because of its combining a Greek prefix with a Latin suffix. JWT did it again later with ""polyspectrum"". (Brillinger, John Wilder Tukey).
Some Notes on the Separation of Convex Sets.
Lisboa, R. Almirante Pessinha, 1942. 8vo. In the original grey printed wrappers. Offprint from: ""Portugaliae Mathematica"", Vol 3, 1942. Very fine and clean. Pp. 95-102
Offprint of Tukey's paper on the pathology of convex sets.
