A. Ross Eckler, Jr.

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Albert Ross Eckler, Jr. (born August 29, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts) is the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University.

While at Bell Labs, Eckler co-authored Mathematical Models of Target Coverage and Missile Allocation with Stefan A. Burr. This was the first monograph published by the Military Operations Research Society (MORS).

Eckler is the former owner and editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics and wrote a book on logology, Making the Alphabet Dance. He is author of The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years, a history of the National Puzzlers' League.

Among his hobbies are genealogy and centenarian research. Eckler has disproved exaggerated age claims such as those of Charlie Smith and George Fruits while authenticating others such as Delina Filkins (1815–1928).