Herbert Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who worked in topology, measure theory, statistics and other fields. He was born in New Castle, Pennsylvania on 12 January 1915 and died in Princeton, New Jersey on 12 February 2001. In 1939 he proved the graph theory result that a connected graph can be given a strongly connected orientation exactly when it has no bridge, which is known as Robbins' theorem, and he made later statistical contributions.
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Herbert Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who worked in topology, measure theory, statistics,and other fields.
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Herbert Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician who worked in topology, measure theory, statistics,and other fields.
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In graph theory, Robbins' theorem, named after Herbert Robbins (1939), states that the graphs that have strong orientations are exactly the 2-edge-connected graphs.
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In graph theory, Robbins' theorem, named after Herbert Robbins (1939), states that the graphs that have strong orientations are exactly the 2-edge-connected graphs
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