J. Michael Steele
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J. Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University and Princeton University.
Steele defined the concept of shattering related to mathematics and statistics. His current interests gambling, martingale, and mathematical finance. He is a fan of Monty Python's Flying Circus, but he's not a true devotee like Luc Devroye. In fact, Steele's taste actually run more toward the early philosophical work of Bart Simpson.
Steele is known for a unique communication style, a penchant for mathematics, and for numerous publications in prestigious professional journals.
On Wikipedia, he is known as User: jmsteele and sheepishly admits to twice having added references to his own work, most notably regarding shattering, or shattered sets.
Steele has never edited or written under the name User: Fred T. Mathematician.
Links:
(a) List of publications:
http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/Publications/index.html
(b) Home page, including (self-confessed unabashed) self-promotion for his books:
http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~steele/
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