David Blackwell, mathematician dead
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)
— David Blackwell, one of the 20th century's pre-eminent mathematicians and the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, has died.
Blackwell also was the first tenured black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for nearly 35 years.
UC Berkeley officials say he died of natural causes in a Berkeley hospital on July 8. He was 91.
Blackwell was known as a wide-ranging problem-solver who contributed to many areas including probability and game theory.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)
— David Blackwell, one of the 20th century's pre-eminent mathematicians and the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, has died.
Blackwell also was the first tenured black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for nearly 35 years.
UC Berkeley officials say he died of natural causes in a Berkeley hospital on July 8. He was 91.
Blackwell was known as a wide-ranging problem-solver who contributed to many areas including probability and game theory.
David Blackwell, mathematician dead
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)
— David Blackwell, one of the 20th century's pre-eminent mathematicians and the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, has died.
Blackwell also was the first tenured black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for nearly 35 years.
UC Berkeley officials say he died of natural causes in a Berkeley hospital on July 8. He was 91.
Blackwell was known as a wide-ranging problem-solver who contributed to many areas including probability and game theory.
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP)
— David Blackwell, one of the 20th century's pre-eminent mathematicians and the first black scholar in the National Academy of Sciences, has died.
Blackwell also was the first tenured black professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught for nearly 35 years.
UC Berkeley officials say he died of natural causes in a Berkeley hospital on July 8. He was 91.
Blackwell was known as a wide-ranging problem-solver who contributed to many areas including probability and game theory.
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