David Blackwell (1919–2010) was an influential American statistician and mathematician known for his significant contributions to various areas, including probability theory, statistics, and game theory. He was the first African American to be elected to the National Academy of Sciences in the United States. Blackwell is particularly renowned for the development of the Blackwell's theorem in probability, as well as for his work on sufficient statistics and statistical decision theory.
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