Samuel Karlin
Facts
29 properties- Instance of
- human
- Sex or gender
- male
- Date of birth
- June 8, 1924
- Date of death
- December 18, 2007
- Place of death
- Palo Alto
- Country of citizenship
- United States[11]
- Occupation
- mathematician, statistician, geneticist, university teacher
- Field of work
- functional analysis, probability theory, game theory[12][13][14]
- Position held
- chairperson[15]
- Religion or worldview
- atheism
- Award received
- National Medal of Science, Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship, John von Neumann Theory Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[21][22][23][24][25]
- Notable work
- BLAST
- Spouse
- Dorit Carmelli[8]
- Doctoral advisor
- Salomon Bochner[20]
- Doctoral student
- John W. Pratt, Christopher Burge, Rupert G. Miller, Jr., Charles J. Stone, Thomas M. Liggett, Donald Iglehart, Marcus W. Feldman, Marcel F. Neuts, Krishna B. Athreya, Richard E. Barlow, Larry Schumaker, Zvi Ziegler, Ilan Eshel, William E. Pruitt, Rodrigo Alvaro Restrepo, Maurice Kennedy, Donald Truax, Stephen Mitchell Samuels, Shoshana Farkash (Rosengarten), Yosef Rinott, Allan Pinkus, Dorit Carmelli, Haim Avni, Ron S. Kenett, Norman Lee Kaplan, Russell Campbell, John Walter Lee, William J. Studden, Burton Singer, Macdonald Scott Morris, Chingfer Sophia Chen, Ming-Ying Leung, Augustus Jerome Fabens, Marjorie Ellen Foddy, John Marshall Karon, Charles A. Micchelli, John Kendal Raper, Masakazu Takahashi, Roy E. Welsch, Benny Levikson, Richard Collom Singleton, Paul Robert Milch, David Edward Foulser, Elic Yavor
- Cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- Languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- Erdős number
- +2
- Family name
- Karlin
- Given name
- Samuel
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- Maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- Manner of death
- natural causes
- Member of
- National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Philosophical Society
- Name
- Sam Karlin
- Name in native language
- Samuel Karlin
- ISNI
- 0000000110766737
- VIAF cluster ID
- 91929343
- Library of Congress authority ID
- n50046910
- GND ID
- 118918672
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- 35868
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- 90148982
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- 12277338f
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- 3189
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- 981058508928106706
- CANTIC ID (former scheme)
- a11260762
- Canadiana Name Authority ID
- ncf11162998
- CiNii Research ID
- 1140282266772142592
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- FAST ID
- 1721720
- Freebase ID
- /m/03qd5mz
- Geni.com profile ID
- 6000000000515967055
- IdRef ID
- 031588077
- JudaicaLink person (GND) ID
- 118918672
- Libraries Australia ID
- 35260182
- Libris-URI
- 97mqv68t5v2vj0p
- MR Author ID
- 98455
- MacTutor biography ID
- Karlin
- Mathematics Genealogy Project ID
- 8105
- NACSIS-CAT author ID
- DA00032754
- NDL Authority ID
- 00445185
- NL CR AUT ID
- jx20050907005
- NLA Trove people ID
- 886544
- NLAI ID
- 103474
- NSK (VIAF) ID
- 000685765
- NSK ID
- 981005660765109366
- NUKAT ID
- n97030561
- National Academy of Sciences member ID
- 53967
- National Library of Israel ID (old)
- 003960393
- National Library of Israel J9U ID
- 987007428025605171
- National Library of Latvia ID
- 000114606
- National Library of Lithuania ID
- LNB:BP7g;=BW
- Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteursnamen ID
- 06956633X
- Parsifal cluster ID
- 477660
- Prabook ID
- 796689
- RERO ID (legacy)
- A003442748
- SBN author ID
- MILV012184
- SELIBR ID
- 307315
- SHARE Catalogue author ID
- 3477
- SNAC ARK ID
- w6wv17v0
- UOM ID
- 72769
- University of Barcelona authority ID
- 981058508928106706
- University of Barcelona authority ID (former scheme)
- a1265011
- WorldCat Entities ID
- E39PBJhRyVgRBwtqgtXGtkXPQq
- Yale LUX ID
- person/6a1917dd-b8c5-42bf-9689-96fc8cb4de81
- ZbMATH author ID
- karlin.samuel
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Doctoral students 4
Member of 4
Occupation 4
Field of work 3
Educated at 2
Cause of death 1
Child 1
Children (paternal) 1
Country of citizenship 1
Doctoral advisor 1
Doctoral advisors 1
Given name 1
Instance of 1
Languages spoken, written or signed 1
Maintained by WikiProject 1
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Notable work 1
Place of death 1
Position held 1
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Summary
Samuel Karlin's place of birth was Poland[1]. He passed away in Palo Alto[2]. He worked as a mathematician[3], statistician[4], geneticist[5], and university teacher[6].
Body
Origins and Family
Recorded place of birth include Poland[1], a sovereign state[26], in Poland[27], founded in 1918[28] and Janów[7], a village of Poland[29], in Poland[30].
Education
Educated at Princeton University[18], a private university[31], in United States[32], founded in 1746[33], headquartered in Princeton[34] and Illinois Institute of Technology[19], a university[35], in United States[36], founded in 1940[37], headquartered in Chicago[38].
Career and Affiliations
Fields of work include functional analysis[12], a branch of mathematics[39]; probability theory[13], a branch of mathematics[40]; and game theory[14], a branch of mathematics[41]. Employers include Stanford University[16], a private university[42], in United States[43], founded in 1885[44], headquartered in Stanford[45] and California Institute of Technology[17], a university[46], in United States[47], founded in 1891[48], headquartered in California[49]. Doctoral students include John W. Pratt[50], Christopher Burge[51], Rupert G. Miller, Jr.[52], Charles J. Stone[53], Thomas M. Liggett[54], and Donald Iglehart[55].
Recognition
Awards received include National Medal of Science[21], a science award[56], in United States[57], founded in 1963[58]; Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship[22], an award[59], in United States[60], founded in 1923[61]; John von Neumann Theory Prize[23], a science award[62], in United States[63], founded in 1975[64]; Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[24], a fellowship award[65]; Paul R. Halmos - Lester R. Ford Awards[25], a mathematics award[66], in United States[67], founded in 1964[68]; and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[69].
Personal Life
Children include Kenneth D. Karlin[9], a chemist[70], b. 1948[71], of United States[72], awarded the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science[73], specialised in inorganic chemistry[74] and Anna Karlin[10], a computer scientist[75], b. 1960[76], of United States[77], awarded the ACM Fellow[78], specialised in informatics[79]. His religion is recorded as atheism[80].
Why It Matters
His notable doctoral advisees include Marcus W. Feldman[81], a biologist[82], b. 1942[83], of United States[84], awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship[85], specialised in biology[86]; Richard E. Barlow[87], a mathematician[88], 1931–2024[89], of United States[90], awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize[91]; John W. Pratt[92], a mathematician[93], b. 1931[94], of United States[95], awarded the Fellow of the Econometric Society[96], specialised in commerce[97]; and Richard Collom Singleton[98], a computer scientist[99], 1928–2007[100].
FAQs
Where was Samuel Karlin born?
Born in Poland[1].
Where did Samuel Karlin die?
Samuel Karlin passed away in Palo Alto[2].
Who was Samuel Karlin married to?
Samuel Karlin's spouses include Dorit Carmelli[8].
What did Samuel Karlin do for work?
Samuel Karlin worked as mathematician[3], statistician[4], geneticist[5], and university teacher[6].
Where did Samuel Karlin go to school?
Samuel Karlin was educated at Princeton University[18] and Illinois Institute of Technology[19].
What awards did Samuel Karlin receive?
Honors received include National Medal of Science[21], Josiah Willard Gibbs Lectureship[22], John von Neumann Theory Prize[23], and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[24].