Gordon Foster
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Irish mathematician
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Gordon Foster's Degrees
- PhD Mathematics Trinity College Dublin
Why Is Gordon Foster Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederic Gordon Foster was an Irish computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number is based.
Gordon Foster's Published Works
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- On the Stochastic Matrices Associated with Certain Queuing Processes (1953) (414)
- An Introduction to Probability Theory and its Applications, Volume I (2Nd Edition) (1958) (221)
- Magnetic Writing on Thin Films of MnBi (1957) (132)
- Observation of Magnetic Domains by the Kerr Effect (1951) (78)
- Distribution‐Free Tests in Time‐Series Based on the Breaking of Records Division of Research Techniques, London School of Economics (1954) (68)
- Upper Percentage Points of the Generalized Beta Distribution. III (1957) (45)
- A distribution model : applicable to economics (1955) (30)
- Queues with Batch Departures II (1961) (26)
- Conditional response times in the M/G/1 processor-sharing system (1983) (25)
- Queues with batch arrivals. I (1964) (24)
- A NOTE ON BAILEY'S AND WHITTLE'S TREATMENT OF A GENERAL STOCHASTIC EPIDEMIC (1955) (22)
- On Markov chains with an enumerable infinity of states (1952) (17)
- Markoff chains with an enumerable number of states and a class of cascade processes (1951) (17)
- A Unified Theory for Stock, Storage and Queue Control* (1959) (16)
- Ferns to know and grow (1984) (16)
- The Computer as an Aid in Teaching Statistics (1969) (12)
- ON A GENERALIZATION OF PÓLYA'S RANDOM-WALK THEOREM (1953) (12)
- Batched Queuing Processes (1964) (12)
- A Sampling Experiment on the Powers of the Records Tests for Trend in a Time Series (1955) (7)
- A computer technique for game-theoretic problems I: chemin-de-fer analyzed (1964) (7)
- The Effect of the Demand Distribution in Inventory Models Combining Holding, Stockout and Re-Order Costs (1971) (3)
- Tables of the Upper Percentage Points of the Generalized Beta Distribution. (1961) (3)
- A Markov Chain Derivation of Discrete Distributions (1952) (2)
- A Simulation Programme for Machine Maintenance, Telephone Traffic and Stock Models (1963) (2)
- Computers, Statistics and Planning - Systems or Chaos? (1968) (2)
- The Microscopy of Fern Spores (1956) (1)
- Book Review:Business Data Processing and Programming. Robert H. Gregory, Richard L. Van Horn (1964) (1)
- Symposium on Light Microscopy (1953) (0)
- Queues with batch arrivals. II (1965) (0)
- The Gardener's Fern Book (1966) (0)
- Growing Bulblets of Asplenium bulbiferum and A. daucifolium (1969) (0)
- Ferns for North American Gardens@@@The Gardeners Fern Book (1966) (0)
- The protective value of BCG vaccination against genito-urinary tuberculosis. (1975) (0)
- Computers in Ireland (1971) (0)
- Book reviews (1969) (0)
- A Distribution Model Applicable to Economics. (1956) (0)
- PROCESSOR-SHARING SYSTEM (1983) (0)
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