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JACOB WOLFOWITZ. March 19, 1910–July 16, 1981. BY SHELEMYAHU ZACKS. J ACOB WOLFOWITZ, A GIANT among the founders of modern statistics, will always be remembered for his originality, deep thinking, clear mind, excellence in teaching, and vast contributions to statistical and information sciences. I met Wolfowitz for the first time in 1957 ...
Leaving Poland, Wolfowitz joined his father in New York when he was ten. He graduated in mathematics from City College (now City U) New York in 1932, spending the next ten years as a mathematics teacher. During this period he worked on non-parametric tests (he coined the word ‘non-parametric’) and began his collaboration with Wald; the Wald–Wolfowitz test was published in 1940. He also ...
1. Sept. 2010 · Jack (Jacob) Wolfowitz was born in Warsaw, Poland, on March 19, 1910, and came to the United States with his family in 1920. He graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1931 and worked toward his PhD while supporting himself as a high-school teacher.
American statistician (1910-1981)
22. Mai 2019 · Jacob Wolfowitz, born a century ago (1920), looked at the problem of noisy radio transmissions. Coded radio transmissions were critical elements of military command and control, and they were plagued by the problem of atmospheric or other interference – “noise”. The weaker the transmission and the longer the distance, the more likely it ...
Jacob Wolfowitz was educated in the public schools of Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from the College of the City of New York with the degree of bachelor of science in 1931. This was during the Great Depression , and Wolfowitz secured whatever employment he could, including high-school teaching, while continuing his education part-time.
Since Wolfowitz's many interests have persisted over time, the sections do not represent chronological divisions...We have tried to choose the papers we regarded as most important among Wolfowitz's work in terms of their further influence, or sometimes a paper that contains what we found a striking idea of him. A further consideration was the lucidity of his explanations that we mentioned in ...
