Samuel Karlin
Samuel Karlin · Science & Medicine
Total positivity and mathematical population genetics
1924, Yonava, Poland (now Jonava, Lithuania) — 2007, Palo Alto, California, United States
Poland/Lithuania · United States
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Samuel Karlin was an American mathematician at Stanford who made deep contributions to total positivity, Tchebycheff systems, game theory, stochastic processes and, in his later career, mathematical population genetics and the statistical analysis of DNA and protein sequences. Born into a Jewish family in Yonava, he emigrated to the United States as an infant. He received the National Medal of Science.
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Total positivity and mathematical population genetics
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