Jack Kiefer (mathematician)

Jack Kiefer (mathematician)

Jack Carl Kiefer (January 25, 1924 – August 10, 1981) was an American statistician.

Biography

Jack Kiefer was born on January 25, 1924, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Carl Jack Kiefer and Marguerite K. Rosenau. He began his undergraduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1942, but left after one year, taking up a position as first lieutenant in the United States Air Force during World War II. In 1946, he returned to MIT, graduating with bachelor's and master's degrees in economics and engineering in 1948 under the supervision of Harold Freeman. He then began graduate studies at Columbia University, under the supervision of Abraham Wald and Jacob Wolfowitz, receiving his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics in 1952. While still a graduate student, he began teaching at Cornell University, remaining there until 1979, when he retired from Cornell and accepted a new position as Miller Research Professor in the Department of Statistics and Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1957, he married Dooley Sciple, a former undergraduate student of his at Cornell, with whom he had two children. Kiefer died of a heart attack in Berkeley, California on August 10, 1981.harvnb|Bechhofer|1982; harvnb|O'Connor|Robertson|2004.]

Awards and honors

Kiefer was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1972) and of the United States National Academy of Sciences (elected 1975). From 1969–1970 he was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 1973, Kiefer and Michael Fisher were the first two Cornell faculty elected as Horace White Professors. [ [http://dspace.library.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/5340/12/004_19.pdf 2 Professors Are Named To Horace White Chairs] , Cornell Chronicle, vol. 4, no. 19, Feb. 22, 1973.]

Contributions

Much of Kiefer's research was on the design of experiments; [harvnb|Wynn|1984.] the "American Statistician" obituary calls him "undoubtedly the foremost worker in optimal experimental design". However, he also made significant contributions to other areas of statistics and optimization, [harvnb|Brown|1984] including the introduction of golden section search (his master's thesis work) and the Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz inequality.

Kiefer has Erdős number 2 due to his collaborations with Aryeh Dvoretzky and Mark Kac.

Notes

References

*citation
title = Jack Carl Kiefer 1924–1981
journal = The American Statistician
last = Bechhofer
first = R.
volume = 36
issue = 4
year = 1982
pages = 356–357
url = http://www.jstor.org/view/00031305/di020572/02p0043s/0.

*citation
title = Jack Carl Kiefer: Collected Papers, Vols. I, II, III
publisher = Springer-Verlag
year = 1985
last1 = Brown
first1 = L. D.
last2 = Olkin
first1 = I.
last3 = Sacks
first3 = J.
last4 = Wynn
first4 = H. P.
id = ISBN 0-387-96003-1, ISBN 0-387-96004-X. Reviewed in [http://www.jstor.org/view/0006341x/di009363/00p0036b/0 "Biometrics" 43 (1): 257] .

*citation
title = The research of Jack Kiefer outside the area of experimental design
last = Brown
first = Lawrence D.
journal = Annals of Statistics
volume = 12
issue = 2
year = 1984
pages = 406–415
url = http://www.jstor.org/view/00905364/di983922/98p00356/0.

*citation
url = http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Kiefer.html
title = Kiefer biography
publisher = MacTutor History of Mathematics
year = 2004
last1 = O'Connor
first1 = J. J.
last2 = Robertson
first2 = E. F..

*citation
title = Jack Carl Kiefer 1924–1981
last = Sacks
first = Jerome
journal = Annals of Statistics
volume = 12
issue = 2
year = 1984
pages = 403–405
url = http://www.jstor.org/view/00905364/di983922/98p00345/0.

*citation
title = Jack Kiefer's contributions to experimental design
last = Wynn
first = Henry P.
journal = Annals of Statistics
volume = 12
issue = 2
year = 1984
pages = 416–423
url = http://www.jstor.org/view/00905364/di983922/98p00367/0.

*citation
title = The publications and writings of Jack Kiefer
journal = Annals of Statistics
volume = 12
issue = 2
year = 1984
pages = 424–430
url = http://www.jstor.org/view/00905364/di983922/98p00377/0.


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