Nationality American Education Ohio State University Alma mater Ohio State University Fields Mathematics | Name George Marsaglia Doctoral advisor Henry Mann Role Mathematician | |
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Born March 12, 1924 ( 1924-03-12 ) Institutions Florida State University
Washington State University Died February 15, 2011, Tallahassee, Florida, United States | ||
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George Marsaglia (March 12, 1924 – February 15, 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist.
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Research on random numbers
George Marsaglia established the lattice structure of linear congruential generators in the paper "Random numbers fall mainly in the planes", retroactively termed Marsaglia effect or Marsaglia's theorem. This phenomenon means that n-tuples with coordinates obtained from consecutive use of the generator will lie on a small number of equally spaced hyperplanes in n-dimensional space. He also developed the diehard tests, a series of tests to determine whether or not a sequence of numbers have the statistical properties that could be expected from a random sequence. In 1995 he published a CD-ROM of random numbers, which included the diehard tests.
He is also known for developing some of the most commonly used methods for generating random numbers and using them to produce random samples from various distributions. Some of the most widely used being the multiply-with-carry, subtract-with-borrow, xorshift, KISS and Mother methods for random numbers, and the ziggurat algorithm for generating normally or other unimodally distributed random variables.
Life
He was Professor Emeritus of Pure and Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Washington State University and Professor Emeritus of Statistics at Florida State University.
Marsaglia died from a heart attack on February 15, 2011, in Tallahassee.