Richard Eugene Barlow | |
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| Born | January 12, 1931 Galesburg, Illinois, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Knox College University of Oregon Stanford University |
| Children | 4 |
| Awards | John von Neumann Theory Prize |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Reliability theory |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Applications of Semi-Markov Processes to Counter and Reliability Problems (1961) |
| Academic advisors | Samuel Karlin |
| Doctoral students | Telba Irony Yosi Ben-Dov |
Richard Eugene Barlow (born January 12, 1931) is an American mathematician and mathematical statistician, who is considered with Frank Proschan as the founder of modern reliability theory. He was a professor at the University of California, Berkeley from 1963 until his retirement in 1999.
He introduced the concept of "Total Time on Test" processes in reliability theory.[1] He and Proschan cowrote the book Mathematical Theory of Reliability.