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Olkin, Ingram

In this interview, Professor Ingram Olkin, emeritus professor of education and of statistics, shares his experiences of growing up in New York, his interrupted undergraduate education at the City College of New York while enlisted in the Army Air Force during World War II, his marriage while in the service, his graduate school years at the Columbia University and his exhilarating PhD graduate school experiences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He describes how the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the tutelage of his professor, Harold Hoteling, was a fertile ground both for the development of multivariate statistics and for the inter-institutional and international collaborations that marked the rest of his career. After two assignments at Michigan State University and at the University of Minnesota, Ingram Olkin was recruited to Stanford with half time positions in the School of Education and the department of Statistics. He discusses his role in shaping both disciplines at a time when decisions were being made to turn both into world-class centers of excellence. He also shares his views on the hiring of women in mathematics and statistics, and the changing face of Stanford.

Memorial Resolution: Olkin, Ingram

Probability models and applications