Emil Julius Gumbel

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Emil Julius Gumbel (July 18, 1891 - September 10, 1966 in New York), was a German mathematician and political writer. Shortly before the outbreak of the First World War he graduated at the University of Munich. Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Heidelberg. Following the murder of friend he investigated several politcal murders and publised his findings in "Four Years of Political Murder" in 1922.

With L.H.C. Tippett and R.A. Fisher he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory.

See Gumbel distribution.

Books about Emil Gumbel:

  • Arthur David Brenner, Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German Pacifist and Professor, ISBN 0-391-04101-0

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