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John Wilder Tukey (/ ˈ t uː k i /; June 16, 1915 – July 26, 2000) was an American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot.
Jul 26, 2000 · Quick Info. Born. 16 June 1915. New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. Died. 26 July 2000. Princeton, New Jersey, USA. Summary. John Tukey introduced the Fast Fourier Transform and worked in other areas of Statistics. View three larger pictures. Biography.
Sep 30, 2020 · Learn about John Tukey, the statistician who coined the term "data analysis" and invented the box plot, FFT, and bit. Discover how he reoriented statistics towards empiricism and away from mathematics.
Dec 19, 2017 · More than 50 years ago, John Tukey called for a reformation of academic statistics. In “The Future of Data Analysis,” he pointed to the existence of an as-yet unrecognized science, whose subject of interest was learning from data, or “data analysis.”
Aug 14, 2017 · Biography. John Wilder Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, 16 June 1915, the only son of the two top 1898 graduates of Bates College. While his father taught Latin in New Bedford, Tukey was largely educated by his mother at home.
Jul 28, 2000 · John Wilder Tukey, one of the most influential statisticians of the last 50 years and a wide-ranging thinker credited with inventing the word ''software,'' died on Wednesday in New Brunswick, N.J.
After R.A. Fisher, John Tukey was surely the most influential statistician of the twentieth century. Trained originally as a chemist and as a mathematician, Tukey contributed to almost every subfield of statistics and invented several of them.
