Emil Julius Gumbel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German mathematician and statistician
Date of Birth: 18-Jul-1891
Place of Birth: Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Date of Death: 10-Sep-1966
Profession: mathematician, translator, university teacher, journalist, statistician
Nationality: United States, German Empire
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Emil Julius Gumbel
- Emil Julius Gumbel (18 July 1891, Munich – 10 September 1966, New York City) was a German mathematician and political writer. Born to a prominent Jewish family in Württemberg, he graduated from the University of Munich shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.
- He was Professor of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Heidelberg. Following the murder of a friend, he attended the trial where he saw that the judge completely ignored evidence against the Nazi Brownshirts.
- Horrified, he ardently investigated many similar political murders that had occurred and published his findings in Four Years of Political Murder in 1922.
- In 1928, he published Causes of Political Murder and also tried to create a political group to counter Nazism.
- Gumbel was also one of the 33 signers of the 1932 Dringender Appell. Among the Nazis' most-hated public intellectuals, he was forced out of his position in Heidelberg in 1932.
- Gumbel then moved to France, where he taught in Paris and Lyon, and then to the United States in 1940.
- He taught at the École Libre Des Hautes Études in Paris and at the New School for Social Research and Columbia University in New York City until his death in 1966.As a mathematician, Gumbel was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher.
- In 1958, Gumbel published a key book on the topic of statistics of extremes.
- He derived and analyzed the probability distribution that is now known as the Gumbel distribution in his honor. When he died, Gumbel's papers were made a part of The Emil J.
- Gumbel Collection, Political Papers of an Anti-Nazi Scholar in Weimar and Exile.
- These papers include reels of microfilm that document his activities against the Nazis.
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