“In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold its own or increase, elementary data analysis should be happy to stay away from theorems.”

About John Tukey

Statistician • American

John Wilder Tukey was an influential American mathematician and statistician best known for his development of the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and the box plot. His work profoundly impacted the fields of data...