Jacob Wolfowitz (March 19, 1910 – July 16, 1981) was a Polish-born American Jewish statistician and Shannon Award -winning information theorist . He was the father of former United States Deputy Secretary of Defense and World Bank Group President Paul Wolfowitz .
8-518: Wolfowitz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jacob Wolfowitz , (1910–1981) American statistician and information theorist Clare Selgin Wolfowitz (born 1945), American anthropologist Paul Wolfowitz , (born 1943) American political figure, son of Jacob [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Wolfowitz . If an internal link intending to refer to
16-519: A heart attack in Tampa , Florida, where he had become a professor at the University of South Florida after retiring from Illinois. Wolfowitz's main contributions were in the fields of statistical decision theory , non-parametric statistics , sequential analysis , and information theory . One of his results is the strong converse to Claude Shannon 's coding theorem . While Shannon could prove only that
24-425: A part-time graduate student, Wolfowitz met Abraham Wald , with whom he collaborated in numerous joint papers in the field of mathematical statistics . This collaboration continued until Wald's death in an airplane crash in 1950. In 1951, Wolfowitz became a professor of mathematics at Cornell University , where he stayed until 1970. From 1970 to 1978 he was at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign . He died of
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40-685: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jacob Wolfowitz Wolfowitz was born in 1910 in Warsaw , Poland, the son of Helen (Pearlman) and Samuel Wolfowitz. He emigrated with his parents to the United States in 1920. He received a bachelor of science in 1931 from the City College of New York . In the mid-1930s, Wolfowitz began his career as a high school mathematics teacher and continued teaching until 1942 when he received his Ph.D. degree in mathematics from New York University . While
48-488: The block error probability can not become arbitrarily small if the transmission rate is above the channel capacity, Wolfowitz proved that the block error rate actually converges to one. As a consequence, Shannon's original result is today termed "the weak theorem" (sometimes also Shannon's "conjecture" by some authors). Vuchetich Yevgeny Viktorovich Vuchetich ( Russian : Евгений Викторович Вучетич; 28 December [ O.S. 15 December] 1908–12 April 1974)
56-511: Was a Soviet sculptor and artist . He is known for his heroic monuments, often of allegoric style, including The Motherland Calls , the largest sculpture in the world at the time. Vuchetich was born in Yekaterinoslav , Yekaterinoslav Governorate , Russian Empire (now Ukraine ), the son of Viktor Vuchetich (Vučetić), a Montenegrin immigrant from the clan of Grbalj, and Anna Andreevna Stewart, of Russian and of French descent. He
64-672: Was a prominent representative of the Socialist Realism style and was awarded with the Lenin Prize in 1970, the Stalin Prize (1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950), Order of Lenin (twice), Order of the Patriotic War (2nd degree), Hero of Socialist Labor (1967) and People's Artist of the USSR (1959). One of his step-granddaughters is Israeli politician Ksenia Svetlova . This article about
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