Euclid In Memoriam, ISI Newsletter 25, #3 (2001) '"Herbert Robbins, Statistician Who Fueled Interest in Math, Dies at 86", NY Times, Feb.15, 2001. "What is known about Robbins' Problem?", F. Thomas Bruss, Journal of Applied Probability Volume 42, #1 (2005). pp. 108–120 Euclid "A continuous-time approach to Robbins' problem of minimizing the expected rank", F. Thomas Bruss and Yves Coamhin Swan, Journal of Applied Probability, Volume 46 #1, 1–18, (2009). External links Herbert Robbins Papers at the Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New York, NY Tze Leung Lai and David Siegmund, "Herbert Robbins", Biographical Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences (2018) 1915 births 2001 deaths People from New Castle, Pennsylvania American statisticians 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Mathematics popularizers Harvard University alumni Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars Presidents of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences Columbia University faculty Mathematical statisticians