Mervin E. Muller

Mervin Edgar Muller was an American computer scientist and mathematician, born in Hollywood, Los Angeles on 1 June 1928, after whom the Box-Muller transform is named. He was one of four sons of parents who were both immigrants from Hungary, studied mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, and earned a Ph.D. in 1954 under George William Brown. He worked for IBM in New York and for fifteen years with the World Bank in Washington, D. C., and taught at UCLA, Cornell University, Princeton University, George Mason University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison before joining the faculty of Ohio State University, where he retired as Robert Critchfield Professor of Engineering. He was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1975 and was the founding president of the International Association of Statistical Computing. He died in Columbus, Ohio, on 3 December 2018.