David Blackwell
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David Blackwell was a pioneering American statistician and mathematician renowned for his contributions to game theory, probability, and information theory, and as one of the first African Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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| David Blackwell canonical | 1 |
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| instanceOf |
human
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mathematician ⓘ statistician ⓘ university teacher ⓘ |
| academicDegree | PhD in mathematics ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Jerzy Neyman Medal
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John von Neumann Theory Prize NERFINISHED ⓘ R. A. Fisher Lectureship NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| coAuthor | M. A. Girshick NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-04-24 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2010-07-08 ⓘ |
| doctoralAdvisor | Joseph L. Doob NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| educatedAt | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ⓘ |
| employer |
Howard University
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University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup |
Black Americans
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African American
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| familyName | Blackwell NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
game theory
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information theory ⓘ mathematics ⓘ probability theory ⓘ statistics ⓘ |
| givenName | David NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasAcademicDiscipline |
applied mathematics
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theoretical statistics ⓘ |
| influenced | modern decision theory ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Abraham Wald
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Jerzy Neyman NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| knownFor |
contributions to Markov decision processes
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contributions to sequential analysis ⓘ foundational contributions to game theory ⓘ pioneering work in Bayesian statistics ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| memberOf | National Academy of Sciences ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
first African American elected to the National Academy of Sciences
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first African American tenured faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Blackwell approachability theorem
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Blackwell’s renewal theorem NERFINISHED ⓘ Blackwell’s theorem NERFINISHED ⓘ Theory of Games and Statistical Decisions NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Centralia, Illinois, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Berkeley, California, United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley
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Professor of Mathematics at Howard University ⓘ Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley ⓘ |
| sexOrGender | male ⓘ |
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