A. Ross Eckler, Jr.

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

While at Bell Labs, Eckler co-authored Mathematical Models of Target Coverage and Missile Allocation with Stefan A. Burr.^[1] This was the first monograph published by the Military Operations Research Society.^{[citation needed]}

Eckler is the former publisher and editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics and wrote a book on logology, Making the Alphabet Dance (ISBN 0312140320). 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).^{[citation needed]}

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).

See also

• Logology
• National Puzzlers' League
• Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics

References

1. ^ 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. 
2. ^ Eckler, Jr., Albert Ross (1998). The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years (1st ed.). National Puzzlers' League, New York. ASIN B001B3MEEU. OCLC 55705246. 
3. ^ Farrell, Jeremiah. "Meet the Ecklers". http://wordways.com. http://wordways.com/meetEcklers.htm. Retrieved 8 March 2010. 

External links

• The National Puzzlers' League
• Military Operations Research Society

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