David Blackwell (1919-2010). Mathematical genius and a 1st in
many circles. Wow. I used this man’s math textbook back in high school and
didn’t know it had been written by him. His 1969 text, Basic Statistics is STILL used today.Terrible in math as a child, his mom
made him face what made the discipline hard to grasp. And when he mastered
that…The rest is history. His statistics textbook made the subject easier for
me. As far as statistics goes as being in anyone’s top ten, it reached number 4
after trigonometry for me. Don’t ask me about geometry. I detested it and still
do ‘til this day.
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