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Early Life
Early Life
David Blackwell was born on April 24, 1919 in Centralia Illinois. David had went to college at the University of Illinois, at the age of 16.
Family Life
Family Life
David Blackwell had 2 brothers named Joshua, J.W. and one sister named Elizabeth. David Blackwell parents were Grover Blackwell and Mable Johnson.
Education & Career
Education & Career
David Blackwell was the first African American to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences. He taught himself to read as a boy and initially planned to become an elementary school teacher. He enrolled at the, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign at the age of sixteen and received all three of his degrees by age twenty-two. He completed his undergraduate degree in 1938 and earned his master's degree the following year. David had a distinguished career while living an extraordinary life. Against the backdrop of the great Depression, World War ll. the Cold War and the, Civil Rights Era, Blackwell's life is one of inspiration.
Impact on his field
Impact on his field
The impact David made on his field is that he made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory. David was also known for Rao-Blackwell theorem, Blackwell channel Blackwell's approachability theory, arbitrarily varying channel, Games of imperfect information, Dirichlet distribution, Bayesian statistics, Mathematical economics, Recursive economics, Sequential analysis, Optimal searching in boxes.
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1. David Harold Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics.2. David Blackwell was the African American inducted into the National Academy of Science, the first African American tenured faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a PhD.3. David Blackwell wrote one of the first Bayesian statistics textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics.
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