• Herbert Ellis Robbins (January 12, 1915 – February 12, 2001) was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory...
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  • Mathematics? is a mathematics book written by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, published in England by Oxford University Press. It is an introduction...
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  • longstanding problem posed by Herbert Robbins, namely, whether all Robbins algebras are Boolean algebras. EQP project. Robbins Algebras Are Boolean. Argonne...
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    the gambler begins with no initial knowledge about the machines. Herbert Robbins in 1952, realizing the importance of the problem, constructed convergent...
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  • In statistics, the Chapman–Robbins bound or Hammersley–Chapman–Robbins bound is a lower bound on the variance of estimators of a deterministic parameter...
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  • In graph theory, Robbins' theorem, named after Herbert Robbins (1939), states that the graphs that have strong orientations are exactly the 2-edge-connected...
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  • thereafter, Herbert Robbins posed the Robbins conjecture, namely that the Huntington equation could be replaced with what came to be called the Robbins equation...
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  • In probability theory, Robbins' problem of optimal stopping, named after Herbert Robbins, is sometimes referred to as the fourth secretary problem or...
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    general public for the book What is Mathematics?, co-written with Herbert Robbins. His research focused on the areas of real analysis, mathematical physics...
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    statistics from Columbia University in 1966. His Ph.D. advisor was Herbert Robbins. After being an assistant and then a full professor at Columbia, he...
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  • the Robbins–Monro and Kiefer–Wolfowitz algorithms introduced respectively in 1951 and 1952. The Robbins–Monro algorithm, introduced in 1951 by Herbert Robbins...
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    interviews with Robbins and his colleagues, premiered on PBS in 2009 and won both an Emmy and a Peabody Award the same year. Robbins was born Jerome Wilson...
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  • stochastic gradient descent and batched gradient descent. In 1951, Herbert Robbins and Sutton Monro introduced the earliest stochastic approximation methods...
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    map Marching squares Planform Tensor field TERCOM Courant, Richard, Herbert Robbins, and Ian Stewart. What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas...
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  • The idea of such a result is probably due to Robbins, but the method of proof is vintage Hsu. Hsu and Robbins further conjectured in that the condition of...
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  • In statistics, the Robbins lemma, named after Herbert Robbins, states that if X is a random variable having a Poisson distribution with parameter λ, and...
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    Statistics at SUNY Stony Brook. There he taught and he worked with Herbert Robbins on AFOSR sponsored research and as a consultant at the Brookhaven National...
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    generalized to the multi-armed bandit, on which early work was done by Herbert Robbins in 1952. A methodology for designing experiments was proposed by Ronald...
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  • associativity, (x∨y)∨z=x∨(y∨z){\displaystyle (x\lor y)\lor z=x\lor (y\lor z)}. Herbert Robbins conjectured that Huntington's axiom could be replaced by ¬(¬(x∨y)∨¬(x∨¬y))=x...
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    What is mathematics? : an elementary approach to ideas and methods. Herbert Robbins ([4th ed.] ed.). United Kingdom: Oxford University Press. p. 267....
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  • ISBN 0-486-63829-4. "The Algebra of Sets", pp 16—23. Courant, Richard, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart, What is mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas...
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    Spear by Kathleen Herbert". "Bride of the Spear, by Kathleen Herbert - coming in June 2013". "Interview with Kathleen Herbert | Robbins Library Digital...
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    + n(n(x) + n(y)) = x. Herbert Robbins immediately asked: If the Huntington equation is replaced with its dual, to wit: Robbins Equation: n(n(x + y) +...
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    Mathematics (1995) What is Mathematics? – originally by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, second edition revised by Ian Stewart (1996) From Here to Infinity...
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  • work on anytime-valid confidence methods by well-known mathematician Herbert Robbins and some of his students. The first time e-values (or something very...
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    Archived from the original (PDF) on November 5, 2014. Courant, Richard, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart, What is mathematics?: an elementary approach to ideas...
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    success as a climber, Robbins founded an eponymous outdoor apparel company with his wife Liz Robbins. Royal Robbins, LLC Royal Robbins LLC is a San Francisco...
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    Alexander Rinnooy Kan John Riordan Jorma Rissanen Ivan Rival Ron Rivest Herbert Robbins Fred S. Roberts Stephen E. Robertson Abraham Robinson Burton Rodin...
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    archived from the original on 2011-02-23, retrieved 2016-04-30. Federer, Herbert (1958), "Review: Geometric integration theory, by H. Whitney", Bulletin...
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  • Remmel (1948–2017) Joseph Ritt (1893–1951) Fred S. Roberts (b. 1943) Herbert Robbins (1915–2001) Julia Robinson (1919–1985), contributor to Hilbert's tenth...
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