A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
| A. Ross Eckler, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born |
August 29, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | logologist, centarian researcher |
Albert Ross Eckler, Jr. (born August 29, 1927) is a logologist and statistician, and author, the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University.
Biography
While at Bell Labs, Eckler co-authored Mathematical Models of Target Coverage and Missile Allocation with Stefan A. Burr.[1]
Eckler is the former publisher and editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics. He wrote a book on logology titled Making the Alphabet Dance.
He is also the author of The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years, a history of the National Puzzlers' League (NPL).[2] He and his wife Faith have been married for more than 50 years,[3] and are former NPL editors under the collective nom de plume "Faro" (with variant forms "FAro" for Faith and "faRO" for Ross).[4]
Eckler's hobbies are genealogy and supercentenarian 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).
Works
- Eckler, A. Ross, Jr. (1997). Making the Alphabet Dance: Recreational Wordplay. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 9780312155803.
See also
- Logology
- National Puzzlers' League
- Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics
References
- ↑ Eckler, Jr., Albert Ross; Burr, Stefan (1972). Mathematical models of target coverage and missile allocation (1st ed.). Military Operations Research Society, Alexandria, Va. ASIN B0006W2E2O. OCLC 1183447.
- ↑ Eckler, Jr., Albert Ross (1998). The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years (1st ed.). National Puzzlers' League, New York. ASIN B001B3MEEU. OCLC 55705246.
- ↑ Farrell, Jeremiah. "Meet the Ecklers". http://wordways.com. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
- ↑ Reference Books and Periodicals For Puzzle Solvers and Composers, Merlin (updated by Saxifrage), National Puzzlers' League, accessed 2015-02-07; under periodicals this lists "Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics, published quarterly by Faro (Faith and Ross Eckler)".