Jacob Wolfowitz

Jacob Wolfowitz ( born March 19, 1910 in Warsaw, † 16 July 1981 in Tampa ) was an from Poland to the United States who emigrated to statisticians and information theorists. His son is the American politician Paul Wolfowitz.

Life

Wolfowitz emigrated in 1920 with his Jewish parents together in the United States. He studied mathematics and was the mid-1930s mathematics teacher at various high schools. This activity he held until 1942 when he received his doctorate from New York University in mathematics. In 1938, he met Abraham Wald know, with whom he studied many problems of probability and statistics to forest death in 1950. In 1951, Wolfowitz was a professor of mathematics at Cornell University, where he remained until 1970. He then taught at the University of South Florida, until he died after a heart attack.

His book Coding theorem of Information Theory is a classic information theory.

In 1970 he was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice ( Asymptotically efficient tests and estimators ).

Writings

• Kiefer, J. (ed. ): Jacob Wolfowitz Selected Papers, Springer- Verlag, 1980, ISBN 0387904638.
• Coding theorem of Information Theory, New York: Springer -Verlag, 1978, ISBN 0387085483.