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“In a world in which the price of calculation continues to decrease rapidly, but the price of theorem proving continues to hold steady or increase, elementary economics indicates that we ought to spend a larger and larger fraction of our time on calculation.”

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John Tukey
John Tukey

John Tukey was an outstanding statistician, born on June 16, 1915, and passed away on July 26, 2000. He made significant contributions to the field of statistics, particularly in exploratory data analysis, non-parametric statistics, and computer science. more

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