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Abraham Wald

Biography

Ph.D. Universität Wien 1931

Dissertation:

Advisor: Karl Menger

Student(s):
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Name	School	Year	Descendants
Herman Chernoff	Brown University	1948	151
Meyer Girshick	Columbia University	1947	119
Milton Sobel	Columbia University	1951	68
Charles Stein	Columbia University	1953	117

According to our current on-line database, Abraham Wald has 4 students and 459 descendants.
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