Emil Gumbel
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Emil Julius Gumbel (July 18 1891 - September 10 1966), was a German mathematician, pacifist and anti-Nazi campaigner. He founded the mathematical field of extreme value theory.
See Gumbel distribution.
Books about Emil Gumbel:
- Arthur David Brenner, Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German Pacifist and Professor, ISBN 0391041010
External links
- http://www.fs.lmu.de/gaf/sonstiges/kultur/cafe/ Gumbel bio in German
- http://www.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/microtext/collection/pages/gumbelem.html Collection of Gumbel's papers
