Ingram Olkin papers

Collection

Identifier: UA-17.343

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Ingram Olkin papers consists of correspondence and proposals related to the creation of the Department of Statistics at MSU. Also include are there preliminary exams from 1969 to 1970.

Dates

Creation: 1948 - 1970

Creator

Olkin, Ingram (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from University Archives & Historical Collections, Michigan State University.

Biographical Note

Ingram Olkin was born on July 23, 1924. He received a B.S. in mathematics from City College of New York in 1947, an M.A. in mathematical statistics from Columbia in 1949, and his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1951. In 1951 he came to MSU in the Department of Mathematics In 1960, he became Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Minnesota. In 1961 he went to Stanford University in 1961 for a joint position as Professor of Statistics and Professor of Education. He served as Chair of the Department of Statistics from 1973 to 1976. Olkin retired in 2007