Born | March 5, 1927 (age 92) Los Angeles, California, United States |
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Nationality | American |
Other names | E. P. Stein |
Alma mater | University of Barcelona UCLA |
Known for | Game theory |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physicist and electronic engineer |
Institutions | Parsons-Aerojet Company Glenn L. Martin Company TRW Space Technology Laboratory JPL Hughes Aircraft |
Richard Arnold Epstein (born March 5, 1927, Los Angeles), also known under the pseudonym E. P. Stein, is an American game theorist.
- Full text of 'The Theory Of Gambling And Statistical Logic' See other formats.
- Jan 01, 1977 He invented gambling. Richard Epstein's classic book on gambling and its mathematical analysis covers the full range of games from penny matching, to Man invented a concept that has since been variously viewed as a vice, a crime, a business, a pleasure, a type of magic, a disease, a folly, a weakness, a form of sexual substitution, an expression of the human instinct.
Education[edit]
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He obtained his A.B. degree from UCLA in 1948. He then pursued graduate studies at the University of California Berkeley. He received his doctorate in physics, on the Born formalization of isochromatic lines, in 1961, from the University of Barcelona.[1]
Career[edit]
He then shifted from spectroscopy to space communications, and worked for eighteen years as an electronics and communications engineer for various U.S. space and missile programs. He was variously employed by Parsons-Aerojet Company at Cape Canaveral, Glenn L. Martin Company, TRW Space Technology Laboratories, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Hughes Aircraft Space Systems Division. Epstein has numerous technical publications in the areas of probability theory, statistics, game theory, and spacecommunications. In 1956, he was elected to member of the IEEE.
Achievements[edit]
The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic ranks as the most popular of Epstein's technical books. He served as a consultant to public and private gamblingcasinos in Greece and Macao, and has testified on technical aspects of gambling in several court cases.
Under the pseudonym 'E. P. Stein', he authored various popular works of fiction as well as historic and non-fictional books, and writes for TV and motion pictures.[2]
Books by Epstein[edit]
- Richard A. Epstein, The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (revised edition), Academic Press, 1995, ISBN0-12-240761-X. (Second edition), Academic Press, 2009, ISBN0-12-374940-9.
Selected journal publications by Epstein[edit]
- Richard A. Epstein, 'An automatic synchronization technique,' IEEE Transactions on Communication Technology,Vol. 13(4), pp. 547–550, 1965.
- Richard A. Epstein, 'Relative coverage of large ground antennas,' IEEE Transactions on Space Electronics and Telemetry,Vol. 10(1), pp. 31–83, 1964.
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Popular works under the pseudonym E. P. Stein[edit]
- Anna K. Brando and E. P. Stein, Brando for Breakfast, Berkley Pub Group, 1980, ISBN0-425-04698-2.
- E. P. Stein, Flight of the Vin Fiz, Arbor House, 1985, ISBN0-87795-672-3.
See also[edit]
- Subtract a square, a mathematical game invented by Epstein
Notes[edit]
- ^'Contributors'. IEEE Transactions on Space Electronics and Telemetry. 10: 47. 1964. doi:10.1109/TSET.1964.4335592.
- ^'Archived copy'. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2013.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
References[edit]
- P. Green Jr., 'Review of 'The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic' (Epstein, R. A.; 1967),' IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 15(5), pp. 637–638, 1969.
- Richard W. Hamming, 'Games of Chance. (Book Reviews: The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic),' Science, Vol. 161(3844), pp. 878, 1968.
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