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John Wilder Tukey

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Birth Date 1915

Death Date 2000

Personal Name John Wilder Tukey

American mathematician and statistician, best known for the development of the fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm and box plot. The Tukey range test, the Tukey lambda distribution, the Tukey test of additivity, and the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma all bear his name.