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	Herbert E. Robbins, 12 Jan. 1915 - 12 Feb. 2001
		Robbins' paper with his student Sutton Monro on Stochastic Approximation provided an analogue of an iterative method due to Isaac Newton for finding the root of a function, even when the function's equation is unknown and the evaluation of the function involves experimental error.
		Robbins also expanded the intellectual horizons of Sequential Analysis, which had begun at Columbia during World War II as part of a program to improve the quality of the large quantities of manufactured goods needed for the military effort.
		Robbins was a Guggenheim Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1952-53 and at the Imperial College in London in 1975-76.
	www.log24.com /log06/saved/061010-Robbins.html (732 words)

	Herbert E. Robbins, Mathematics and Statistics Pioneer, Dies at 86 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Herbert E. Robbins, professor of mathematics and statistics at Columbia, the University of North Carolina and Rutgers, died on Feb. 12 in Princeton, N.J., where he had lived since 1990.
		Robbins’ best-known work is What is Mathematics?, co-authored with Richard Courant and published in 1941 and in 1996.
		He is survived by his wife, Carol; a sister, Francie Shumsky of Atlantic City; two daughters from his first marriage, Susannah Robbins of Cambridge, Mass., and Marcia Robbins of Seattle; three children from his second marriage, Mark and Emily Robbins, both of New York City, and David Robbins of Philadelphia.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol26/vol26_iss16/2616_Robbins_Dies.html (255 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The problem was posed by Herbert Robbins at Harvard University in the 1930s, and some of the great mathematicians of the century have worked on it.
		The Robbins problem was to determine whether one particular set of rules is powerful enough to capture all of the laws of Boolean algebra.
		On the nature of the solution, McCune said, "The proof of the Robbins theorem is quite different from the proof of the four-color theorem, which is probably the most famous computer proof.
	www-unix.mcs.anl.gov /~mccune/papers/robbins/press-release.txt (382 words)

	Obituaries (Gladwin, Michigan ) 02-18-2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lyon Herbert Robbins, Lyon Herbert Robbins, age 77, passed away Friday, Feb.
		Robbins, known to friends as "Robbie", was born in Iron
		Robbins of Ringoes, New Jersey, Jeffrey Robbins of
	www.gladwinmi.com /placed/obits/02-18-2004.html (1025 words)

	Robbins Algebras Are Boolean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robbins and Huntington could not find a proof, and the problem was later studied by Tarski and his students [6].
		The proof that solves the Robbins problem was found October 10, 1996, by the theorem prover EQP.
		It follows immediately from this and the Winker lemma that all Robbins algebras are Boolean.
	www.cs.unm.edu /~mccune/papers/robbins (761 words)

	Robbins Algebras Are Boolean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robbins and Huntington could not find a proof, and the problem was later studied by Tarski and his students [6].
		The proof that solves the Robbins problem was found October 10, 1996, by the theorem prover EQP.
		It follows immediately from this and the Winker lemma that all Robbins algebras are Boolean.
	www.mcs.anl.gov /home/mccune/ar/robbins (793 words)

	Herbert Robbins and sequential analysis: invited paper, David Siegmund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		This paper reviews Herbert Robbins' research in sequential analysis (excluding stochastic approximation) from 1952 until roughly 1980.
		ROBBINS, H. Statistical methods related to the law of the iterated logarithm.
		ROBBINS, H. and SIEGMUND, D. Boundary crossing probabilities for the Wiener process and sample sums.
	projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Display/euclid.aos/1051027870 (1246 words)

	Efficiency of the u,v method of estimation -- Robbins and Zhang 97 (24): 12976 -- Proceedings of the National Academy ...
		Efficiency of the u,v method of estimation -- Robbins and Zhang 97 (24): 12976 -- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
		Robbins (1) considered estimation of the sum in 1.1 and certain other related quantities for general, but known,
		Robbins, H. in Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics IV, eds.
	www.pnas.org /cgi/content/full/97/24/12976 (873 words)

	What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Oxford Paperbacks) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Allow me to bring the second author, Herbert Robbins, to your attention.
		Google his name and you will find that Herbert Robbins is one of the most prolific and creative statisticians ever existed.
		I have every reason to believe that Robbins has done more to this book than we give him credit for.
	www.duchs.com /isbn/0195105192 (156 words)

	Herbert Robbins Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	HPCwire Article # 10809
		The problem was posed by Herbert Robbins at Harvard University in the 1930s, and some of the great mathematicians of the century have worked on it.
		The Robbins problem was to determine whether one particular set of rules is powerful enough to capture all of the laws of Boolean algebra.
		To prove the four-color theorem, mathematicians devised an outline of a proof, wrote special-purpose software, and gave the computer a large number of cases to verify; an explicit proof was not constructed, so correctness of the proof depends on correctness of the software.
	www.hpcwire.com /hpc-bin/artread.pl?direction=Current&articlenumber=10809 (506 words)

	Robbins Genealogy - Crewe Surname Lists Page
		1880 to Feb 1964), married Herbert Robbins on 15 Jun 1901 in Gillingham, Kent.
		1964), married William Henry Robbins on 17 Nov 1899 in Coppenhall.
		Emily (6 May 1856 to 1 Nov 1940), married Walter Isaac Robbins on 12 June 1881 in Monks Coppenhall.
	users.bigpond.net.au /robbins/genealogy/crewe.htm (242 words)

	What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Oxford Paperbacks) (Richard Courant , Herbert ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Robbins studied mathematics at Harvard in the 1930s.
		At the time he worked with Courant on this book, he was a young rising star in mathematics/statistics.
		We may never know the exact magnitude of Robbins's contribution to this book, but a complete ignorance of him is certainly unjust.
	www.ka-tet-corp.com /portal/webstore/us/product/0195105192.htm (591 words)

	Writing in the Rain -- Washington Authors by Bruce Brown (from Washington Post Book World)
		Others, such as Tom Robbins, Doug Unger, Alan Furst and Jane Adams, haven't been seen in these parts for a long time.
		Herbert reports that his current project is a collaboration with his oldest son, Brian (himself the author of Sidney's Comet), on a new novel.
		Robbins says his new novel, Jitterbug Perfume, which will be published by Bantam in the fall, is "fairly different" from his previous books.
	www.astonisher.com /archives/wa_authors.html (1807 words)

	Barbecue a respite from town's grief \| StarNewsOnline.com \| Star-News \| Wilmington, NC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The cookout was at the home of James Keith Jr.'s, who said the purpose was to feed people in the area and "get their mind off of whats going on." Keith lives only a few hundred yards from where the tornado struck.
		Cordial hellos and laughter from a revolving group of acquaintances and family filled the air along with puffs of smoke billowing from two charcoal-colored grills in Keith's driveway.
		Herbert Robbins, Keith's nephew, wanted to take people's minds off the devastation caused by Thursday's deadly tornado.
	www.wilmingtonstar.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061120/NEWS/611200344/1004/frontpage (639 words)

	Confidence Intervals From One Observation
		First, Herbert Robbins nonparametric confidence interval is obtained.
		According to Robbins, this phenomenon was discovered by an electrical engineer in the 60's (Robert Machol IEEE Trans.
		The nonparametric improvement is due to Robbins and the intervals on
	omega.albany.edu:8008 /confint.html (993 words)

	Amazon.com: Profile For H. G. Sung: Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Google his name and you will find that Herbert Robbins is one of the most prolific and creative statisticians ever existed.
		Robbins studied mathematics at Harvard in the 1930s.
		I have every reason to believe that Robbins has done more to this book than we give him credit for.
	www.amazon.com /gp/cdp/member-reviews/AJA2WI360ZSIP?ie=UTF8 (347 words)

	Vol. 4 nr. 2-3 1997
		This run on the Robbins problem was initiated by William McCune, a PhD mathematician and member of a group of researchers in automated theorem proving at the Argonne Labs.
		In the 1930’s Herbert Robbins, a Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, asked the seemingly innocent question: What if we replace Huntington’s Axiom 2.
		In the next installment we shall consider both the structure and the significance of this puzzle of Herbert Robbins.
	www.imprint.co.uk /C&HK/vol4/v4-23kauffman.htm (2430 words)

	Tom Robbins
		Their lives extended another day, flies buzzed everything within their range, monotonously eulogizing themselves, like the patriots who persist in praising the glory of a culture long after it is decadent and doomed.
		Known for his offbeat plots and inventive style, the American novelist Thomas Eugene Robbins, b.
		After attending several colleges, Robbins worked as a copy editor for three newspapers--the Richmond Times-Dispatch, the Seattle Times (where he was also art critic), and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/robbins.htm (268 words)

	Solution of the Robbins Problem - McCune (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In this article we show that the three equations known as commutativity, associativity, and the Robbins equation are a basis for the variety of Boolean algebras.
		The problem was posed by Herbert Robbins in the 1930s.
		Key words: Associative-commutative unification, Boolean algebra, EQP, paramodulation, Robbins...
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /mccune97solution.html (476 words)

	What is known about Robbins' Problem?, F. Thomas Bruss
		The general solution is still unknown, and only some bounds are known for the limiting value as n tends to infinity.
		Lai, T. and Siegmund, D. The contributions of Herbert Robbins to mathematical statistics.
		Robbins, H. [Who solved the secretary problem?]: comment.
	projecteuclid.org /Dienst/UI/1.0/Summarize/euclid.jap/1110381374 (507 words)

	ttgapers.com store - What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods (Oxford Paperbacks) - Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but not to real understanding or greater intellectual independence.
		This new edition of Richard Courant's and Herbert Robbins's classic work seeks to address this problem.
		With chapters largely independent of one another and sections that lead upward from basic to more advanced discussions, readers can easily pick and choose areas of particular interest without impairing their understanding of subsequent parts.
	www.ttgapers.com /ttStore-index2-asin-0195105192.html (1480 words)

	James E. ROBBINS/Cora Jane COLEMAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Name: Vernie ROBBINS Born: 5 DEC 1895 at: Scottsburg, Scott Co., IN Married: at: Died: 2 MAY 1901 at: Scottsburg, Scott Co., IN Spouses:
		Name: Alma Gladys ROBBINS Born: 15 SEP 1902 at: Scott Co., IN Married: 23 MAY 1920 at: Scottsburg, Scott Co., IN Died: 30 OCT 1985 at: Scottsburg, Scott Co., IN Spouses: Charles GARARD
		Name: Herbert Warner ROBBINS Born: 8 JUL 1911 at: Scottsburg, Scott Co., IN Married: at: Died: 8 JUL 1911 at: Scottsburg, Scott Co., IN Spouses:
	users.hsonline.net /~wgarard/fam00006.htm (306 words)

	Math5337: Peaucellier's Linkage, Part 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		According to Courant and Robbins, "What is Mathematics," Peaucellier's linkage is the first linkage to turn circular motion into mathematically exact linear motion.
		James Watt invented a similar such device for use in his steam engine, but it was only approximate.
		For more information and another such linkage, see Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, "What is Mathematics," Oxford University Press, 1941.
	www.geom.uiuc.edu /education/math5337/linkage/part4.html (96 words)

	Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Genealogy Report: Robbins,Bechetels,Legg's
		Minerva Bechtel wife of Herbert James Robbins, and with Grampa Samuel Bechtel in the same grave to watch over the child, With Grampa Herbert Robbins and Gramma Eliza Legg always close.
		This is the Original Robbins Gravesides of the 2nd Generation, some of the 3rd Generation, Herbert Robbins being of the 1st Generation.[Von Bechtolsheim.FTW]
		This is the Original Robbins Gravesides of the 2nd Generation, some of the 3rd Generation, Herbert Robbins being of the 1st Generation.
	familytreemaker.genealogy.com /users/m/i/l/Elizabeth-J-Milligan/GENE1-0003.html (366 words)

	Oxford University Press: What Is Mathematics?: Richard Courant
		The teaching and learning of mathematics has degenerated into the realm of rote memorization, the outcome of which leads to satisfactory formal ability but not to real understanding or greater intellectual independence.
		With chapters largely independent of one another and sections that lead upward from basic to more advanced discussions, readers can easily pick and choose areas of particular interest without impairing their understanding of subsequent parts.
		Herbert Robbins is New Jersey Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Rutgers University.
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/Mathematics/?view=usa&ci=0195105192 (742 words)

	Scout Report Archives
		But since the 1930s, when Harvard's Herbert Robbins posed it, pondering this issue has been a favorite pastime for mathematicians.
		In October 1996, however, speculation came to an end when a proof that solves the Robbins problem was discovered by Dr. William McCune, a staff member in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division of the Argonne National Laboratory.
		What's even more interesting about his discovery is that the proof itself was found by the automated reasoning software "EQP." Now a pre-publication version of McCune's findings is available, which describes how he coaxed 3 UNIX machines into thinking through a problem whose solution had eluded two generations of humans.
	scout.wisc.edu /Archives/SPT--FullRecord.php?ResourceId=464 (161 words)

	American Mathematical Society :: Feature Column
		By pure coincidence, I was at this time reading the book What is Mathematics by Richard Courant and Herbert Robbins, and I was extremely excited to realize that there were a number of things that the book discussed that were relevant to the puzzle.
		You could imagine the desert as being, in the term used by Courant and Robbins, a rubber sheet which you could deform to your heart's content.
		Whereas I myself was not all that surprised, since Courant and Robbins had a clear discussion of the famous Königsberg bridge puzzle, which is also impossible.
	www.ams.org /featurecolumn/archive/gminor.html (2249 words)

	Mathematics Puzzle Finally Solved
		The "Proof of Robbins Conjecture" problem is on the screen.
		In the early 1930s, Herbert Robbins of Harvard University posed a question that intrigued mathematicians: Is a particular set of three equations powerful enough to capture all the laws of Boolean algebra?
		Furthermore, the mathematicians collaborated without regard to institutional or even international borders, and without a research grant.
	www.er.doe.gov /sub/Accomplishments/Decades_Discovery/69.html (325 words)

	Amazon.ca: Herbert - Hospitality, Travel & Tourism / Industries & Professions: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Food Choice, Acceptance and Consumption by Herbert L., Ph.D. Meiselman and H. Macfie (Hardcover - May 1996)
		Guide to the Small and Historic Lodgings of Florida by Herbert L. Hiller and Charles Greacen (Paperback - Oct 1986)
		Monet on the Normandy Coast : Tourism and Painting, 1867-1886 by Robert L. Herbert (Paperback - Sep 10 1996)
	www.amazon.ca /s?ie=UTF8&rh=n:935700,p_27:Herbert&page=1 (228 words)

	MthT 510 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		I have asked the publisher for permission to distribute copies to the class.
		Much of this material is also covered in chapter IV of Courant and Robbins.
		It time allows and there is student interest, we will also cover chapter III of Courant and Robbins on Geometrical Constructions.
	www.math.uic.edu /~heitsch/MthT510.html (338 words)

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