Samuel Karlin
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Samuel Karlin. (1924 – 2007). American mathematician and statistician at Stanford University.
Noteworthy
- Experimental Design Optimization.
- Contributions to the fields of mathematical economics, bioinformatics, game theory, evolutionary theory, biomolecular sequence analysis, and total positivity.
- Authored ten books and more than 450 articles.
- Extensive work in mathematical population genetics.
- Co-developed the Karlin-Altschul statistics, a basis for the highly used sequence similarity software program BLAST.