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Edward L. Kaplan

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American mathematician

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Edward L. Kaplan
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#1866
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#474
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Measure Theory
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#4401
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According to Wikipedia, Edward Lynn Kaplan was a mathematician most famous for the Kaplan–Meier estimator, developed together with Paul Meier. Biography Edward Lynn Kaplan was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 11, 1920. His parents were Eugene V. Kaplan and Frances Rhodes Kaplan . He graduated from Swissvale High School in Swissvale, Pennsylvania, in 1937. He attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1937 to 1941 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1941. Three times—in 1939, 1940, and 1941—he was one of the five honorees in the nationwide William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition conducted by the American Mathematical Association. He was offered Westinghouse's Putnam Prize Scholar Scholarship in mathematics at Harvard but was unable to accept due to his involvement in war efforts. Kaplan was elected to three scholastic societies: Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi, and the engineering society, Tau Beta Phi.

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