Richard Threlkeld Cox

Richard Threlkeld Cox
Born(1898-08-02)August 2, 1898
DiedMay 2, 1991(1991-05-02) (aged 92)
NationalityAmerican
EducationJohns Hopkins University
Known forCox's theorem
Scientific career
InstitutionsNew York University
Johns Hopkins University

Richard Threlkeld Cox (August 5, 1898 – May 2, 1991) was a professor of physics at Johns Hopkins University, known for Cox's theorem relating to the foundations of probability.[1]

  1. ^ Tribus, Myron (2002), "An appreciation of Richard Threlkeld Cox", Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering (4-9 August 2001, Baltimore, Maryland, USA), AIP Conf. Proc., vol. 617, pp. 3–20, doi:10.1063/1.1477035.