Emil Julius Gumbel

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Emil Julius Gumbel (1891–1966) was a prominent German-American mathematician and statistician known for his contributions to the fields of probability and statistics, particularly in relation to extreme value theory. He is best known for developing the Gumbel distribution, which is used to model the distribution of the maximum (or the minimum) of a number of samples of various kinds of random variables.

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