(1891–1966; b. Munich, Germany; d. New York City) German Jewish statistician who spent most of his career in exile. He was educated at Munich U, obtaining a PhD in population statistics in 1914. In 1923 he joined the faculty of U Heidelberg but he was an outspoken pacifist and his political publications led to exile, first in France in 1932 where he worked at U Lyon, and then in the United States in 1940. It was while in France that he published the definitive study of the extreme-value distribution that bears his name.
Emil Julius Gumbel
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Emil Julius Gumbel (July 18, 1891 - September 10, 1966) was a German mathematician and political writer.
Born in Munich, 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 investigated several political murders and published his findings in Four Years of Political Murder in 1922.
With Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher he pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory, and the Gumbel distribution was named after him.
Gumbel died in New York in 1966.
Further reading
- Brenner, Arthur David. Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German Pacifist and Professor. ISBN 0-391-04101-0.
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