Joseph Kruskal | |
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| Born | January 29, 1928 New York, New York, U.S. |
| Died | September 19, 2010 (aged 82) Maplewood, New Jersey, U.S.[1] |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago Princeton University |
| Known for | Multidimensional scaling Kruskal's algorithm Kruskal's tree theorem Kruskal–Katona theorem |
| Relatives | Clyde Kruskal (nephew) |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | University of Michigan Bell Labs |
| Thesis | The Theory of Well-Partially-Ordered Sets (1954) |
| Doctoral advisors | Roger Lyndon Paul Erdős |
Joseph Bernard Kruskal, Jr. (/ˈkrʌskəl/; January 29, 1928 – September 19, 2010) was an American mathematician, statistician, computer scientist and psychometrician.