David Blackwell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David Blackwell

American mathematician

Date of Birth: 24-Apr-1919

Place of Birth: Centralia, Illinois, United States

Date of Death: 08-Jul-2010

Profession: mathematician, statistician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

David Harold Blackwell (April 24, 1919 – July 8, 2010) was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics.
He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem.
He was the first African American inducted into the National Academy of Sciences, the first black tenured faculty member at UC Berkeley, and the seventh African American to receive a Ph.D.
in Mathematics. Blackwell was also a pioneer in textbook writing.
He wrote one of the first Bayesian textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics.
By the time he retired, he had published over 90 books and papers on dynamic programming, game theory, and mathematical statistics.