George Kingsley Zipf
George Kingsley Zipf | |
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 1917 photograph from the 1919 Annual of the Freeport High School, Freeport, Illinois | |
| Born | January 7, 1902 |
| Died | September 25, 1950 (aged 48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Known for | Zipf's law |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics, linguistics |
George Kingsley Zipf (/ˈzɪf/;[1] January 7, 1902 – September 25, 1950), was an American scientist in the fields of linguistics, philology, mathematics and statistics. He came up with a law of word frequency in languages which bears his name.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Leitch, Matthew (2010), A Pocket Guide to Risk Mathematics: Key Concepts Every Auditor Should Know, John Wiley & Sons, p. 62, ISBN 9780470971468.