The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of John Tukey, the American statistician at Princeton and Bell Labs who introduced the fast Fourier transform algorithm, exploratory data analysis, and the box plot.
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PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Tukey/
Source Typeacademic biography
Reliability Tier2
A biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, a university-maintained academic history project (University of St Andrews); used here for uncontested biographical facts, cross-checked during research against independent citations of the 1965 and 1977 works it describes. Sources
John Tukey (MacTutor)
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