Samuel Karlin

Samuel Karlin (June 8, 1924 - December 18, 2007) was an American mathematician at Stanford University in the late 20th century.

Karlin was borne in Yanova, Poland and immigrated to Chicago as a child. Raised in an Orthodox Jewish household, Karlin denounced his faith while in his teens and remained an atheist for the rest of his life. [ [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january16/karlin-011608.html Sam Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dies ] ]

Karlin earned his undergraduate degree from Illinois Institute of Technology; and then his doctorate in mathematics from Princeton University in 1947 (at the age of 22) under the supervision of Salomon Bochner. He was on the faculty of CalTech from 1948-56, before becoming a professor of mathematics and statistics at Stanford. [ [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/karlin-010908.html Sam Karlin, influential math professor, dead at 83 ] ] [ [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january16/karlin-011608.html Sam Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dies ] ]

Throughout his career, Karlin made fundamental contributions to the fields of mathematical economics, bioinformatics, game theory, evolutionary theory, biomolecular sequence analysis, and total positivity. [ [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/karlin-010908.html Sam Karlin, influential math professor, dead at 83 ] ] He did extensive work in mathematical population genetics. In the early 1990s, Karlin and Stephen Altschul developed the Karlin-Altschul statistics, a basis for the highly used sequence similarity software program BLAST. [ [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january16/karlin-011608.html Sam Karlin, mathematician who improved DNA analysis, dies ] ]

Karlin authored ten books and more than 450 articles. [ [http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/karlin-010908.html Sam Karlin, influential math professor, dead at 83 ] ] Karlin was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences. In 1989, President George W. Bush bestowed Karlin the National Medal of Science "for his broad and remarkable researches in mathematical analysis, probability theory and mathematical statistics, and in the application of these ideas to mathematical economics, mechanics, and population genetics." [ [http://www.nsf.gov/od/nms/recip_details.cfm?recip_id=187 US NSF - The President's National Medal of Science: Recipient Details ] ]

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elected publications

* S. Karlin and H. M. Taylor. "A First Course in Stochastic Processes." Academic Press, 1975 (second edition).
* S. Karlin and H. M. Taylor. "A Second Course in Stochastic Processes." Academic Press, 1981.
* S. Karlin and H. M. Taylor. "An Introduction to Stochasic Modeling, Third Edition." Academic Press, 1998. ISBN 0-12-684887-4
* S. Karlin, D. Eisenberg, and R. Altman. "Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges." National Academic Press Inc., 2005. ISBN 978-0309100298.
* S. Karlin (Ed.). "Econometrics, Time Series, and Multivariate Statistics." Academic Press, 1983. ISBN 978-0123987501.
* S. Karlin (Author) and E. Nevo (Editor). "Evolutionary Processes and Theory." Academic Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0123987600.
* S. Karlin. "Mathematical Methods and Theory in Games, Programming, and Economics." Dover Publications, 1992. ISBN 978-0486670201.
* S. Karlin and E. Nevo (Eds.). "Population Genetics and Ecology." Academic Press, 1976. ISBN 978-0123985606.
* S. Karlin. "Tchebycheff systems: With applications in analysis and statistics (pure and applied mathematics)." Interscience Publishers, 1966 (1st edition). ASIN B0006BNV2C.
* S Karlin and S. Lessard. "Theoretical Studies on Sex Ratio Evolution." Princeton University Press, 1986. ISBN 978-0691084121
* S. Karlin. "Theory of Infinite Games." Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. Inc., 1959. ASIN B000SNID12.
* S. Karlin. "Total Positivity, Vol. 1." Stanford, 1968. ASIN B000LZG0Xu.
*cite journal | journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | volume=87 | pages=2264–8 | date=1990 | author=Karlin Samuel, Altschul Stephen F. | title=Methods for assessing the statistical significance of molecular sequence features by using general scoring schemes | url=http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=2315319 | pmid=2315319 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.87.6.2264
*cite journal | journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A | volume=90 | pages=5873–7 | date=1993 | author=Karlin S, Altschul SF. | title=Applications and statistics for multiple high-scoring segments in molecular sequences | url=http://www.pnas.org/cgi/pmidlookup?view=long&pmid=8390686 | pmid=8390686 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.90.12.5873

References

External links

* [http://mathgateway.maa.org/do/ViewMathNews?id=259 "Math in the News: Mathematician Sam Karlin, Known for Contributions in Computational Biology, has Died."] Math Gateway of the Mathematical Association of America, February 5, 2008.
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*citation | last = Martin | first = Douglas | title = Samuel Karlin, Versatile Mathematician, Dies at 83 | newspaper=The New York Times | year=2008 |date = February 21, 2008 | url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/us/21karlin.html?ref=us
* [http://bulletin.imstat.org/archive/37/4 Obituary, I.M.S. Bulletin, May 2008]