John Wilder Tukey was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts on June 16, 1915. He passed away the 26th of July on 2000 in Princeton; New Jersey. He was the only child of Adah M. Tasker and Ralph H. Tukey. After Tukey was born his parents decided to leave New Bedford, but when he turned five years old they decided to move back. They both were secondary teachers, but his mother did not teach full time. Before going to college Tukey received an unusual education. He had home schooling. Since he was the only child his parents were very concerned with his education. His mother began to feel worried about him and concerned that at one point he would become lazy for school, so they decided to have home schooling for him. However, Tukey did have semesters in high school of French, chemistry laboratory and mechanical drawing. He married Elizabeth Louise Rapp in 1950 and she died in 1998. They didn’t have any children.
In 1933 Tukey entered Brown University which he entered by the College Board exams. There he studied mathematics and chemistry. In 1936 he earned his Bachelor’s and in 1937 he earned a Master’s in chemistry. After he received his bachelors and masters he went to Princeton University to earn his doctorate in chemistry. When he started attending Princeton he was a Laboratory Assistant in sophomore chemistry, but he addressed a problem. He complained that they wouldn’t allow him be a Demonstrator in Physical Chemistry even though he was one in Brown University. He went to Princeton to earn his doctorate in chemistry, but he then changed to mathematics and earned his doctorate in 1939. During this time Tukey was working in analysis and topology. In 1970 he was invited to become part of the Brown Corporation, the “governi...
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Later then Daniel Carr found Tufte’s variation to be substantially less accurate than the original, so he proposed a colourful variation designed to be tightly linked, so that each box plot appears a single object, not a collection of lines. Tukey is also a creator of several methods: Trimean Median-median line which is an easier alternative to linear regression. He is particularly remembered for his development with James Cooley of the Cooley–Tukey FFT algorithm. FFTs became popular after James Cooley of and John Tukey of Princeton published a paper in 1965 reinventing the algorithm and describing how to perform it conveniently on a computer. The Cooley–Tukey algorithm is fast Fourier transform algorithm. It re-expresses the discrete Fourier transform of an arbitrary composite size in terms of smaller discrete Fourier transform of sizes
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