The Legend of Abraham Wald(privatdozent.co) |
The Legend of Abraham Wald(privatdozent.co) |
Wald, A. (1939). Contributions to the theory of statistical estimation and testing hypotheses. The Annals of Mathematics, 10(4), 299-326.
Perhaps being homeschooled helped acquire such skill.
Add to other mathematicians who would have been even more prominent if they hadn't died before their time: Galois, Ramanujan, Turing...
This is a nice riddle:
Is summing the series:
1, -1, 1, 1,....
0 = (1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)....=0+0+0...
or
1 = 1+(-1+1)+(-1+1)+(-1+1)....=1+0+0+0...