Joseph Kruskal
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Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (/ˈkrʌskəl/; January 29, 1928 – September 19, 2010) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician.
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Joseph Kruskal | |
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Born | (1928-01-29)January 29, 1928 New York, New York, U.S. |
Died | September 19, 2010(2010-09-19) (aged 82) Maplewood, New Jersey, U.S.[1] |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of Chicago Princeton University |
Known for | Multidimensional scaling Kruskal's algorithm Kruskal's tree theorem Kruskal–Katona theorem |
Relatives | Clyde Kruskal (nephew) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | University of Michigan Bell Labs |
Thesis | The Theory of Well-Partially-Ordered Sets (1954) |
Doctoral advisors | Roger Lyndon Paul Erdős |
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