Leonard E. Baum
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Who is Leonard E. Baum?
Leonard Esau Baum is an American mathematician, known for the Baum–Welch algorithm. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University in 1953, and earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard in 1958, with a dissertation entitled Derivations in Commutative Semi-Simple Banach Algebras. At the time he wrote his famous work with Welch, he was working for the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey. Later, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Baum made important innovations in mathematical models for currency trading, working with Monemetrics, a predecessor of hedge fund management company Renaissance Technologies.
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- Harvard University
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- Renaissance Technologies
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on July 23, 2013
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