Joseph Kruskal
Statistician, Academic
1928 – 2010
Who was Joseph Kruskal?
Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician. He was a student at the University of Chicago and at Princeton University, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1954, nominally under Albert W. Tucker and Roger Lyndon, but de facto under Paul Erdős with whom he had two very short conversations. Kruskal has worked on well-quasi-orderings and multidimensional scaling.
He was a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, former president of the Psychometric Society, and former president of the Classification Society of North America. He also initiated and was first president of the Fair Housing Council of South Orange and Maplewood in 1963, and actively supported civil rights in several other organizations.
In statistics, Kruskal's most influential work is his seminal contribution to the formulation of multidimensional scaling. In computer science, his best known work is Kruskal's algorithm for computing the minimal spanning tree of a weighted graph.
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- Born
- Jan 29, 1928
New York City - Also known as
- Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr.
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Princeton University
- Died
- Sep 19, 2010
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on July 23, 2013
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