Friday, November 16, 2012

Statisticians around the Globe

Here is a collection of information about Statisticians arranged by country:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Statisticians_by_country

Statisticians among Most Influential Scientists

The list of 20 Most Influential Scientists Alive Today:

http://www.superscholar.org/features/20-most-influential-scientists-alive-today/

It includes
-Persi Diaconis, known for his work on the dynamics of coin flipping & also about the number of shuffles required to randomize a deck of playing cards..

-Donald Knuth, who created of the TeX computer typesetting system..

-Andrew Wiles, famous for proving Fermat's Last Theorem.