Shepp, Lawrence A., 1936-

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Name (Latin)
Shepp, Lawrence A., 1936-
Other forms of name
Shepp, L. A. (Lawrence A.), 1936-
Shepp, Larry, 1936-
Date of birth
1936-09-09
Date of death
2013-04-23
Field of activity
Geometric tomography
Mathematics
Statistics
Occupation
Authors
Editors
Mathematicians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Lawrence Alan
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 115403419
Wikidata: Q6504586
Library of congress: n 82133000
HAI10: 000256645
Sources of Information
  • University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, 18 August 2017(obituary posted April 29, 2013 : Larry Shepp, distinguished mathematician and probabilist; PhD in mathematics, Princeton University (1961); M.A. in mathematics, Princeton University (1960); B.S. in applied mathematics, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1958); at University of Pennsylvaina (since 2010), Rutgers University (1997-2010), Columbia University (1973-1996) and part-time at Stanford University (1978-1992); storied career at Bell Laboratories (1962-1996); developer of the “Shepp-Logan” algorithm in the early 1970s, which became the worldwide standard for all CT machines, later expanding this algorithm to MRI scans)
  • Wikipedia, 18 August 2017(Lawrence Shepp; Lawrence Alan Shepp (September 9, 1936 Brooklyn, NY - April 23, 2013, Tucson, AZ); was an American mathematician, specializing in statistics and computational tomography; PhD, Princeton University (1961); joined Bell Laboratories (1962); joined Rutgers University (1997); joined University of Pennsylvania (2010))
  • Computed tomography, c1982 (a.e.)CIP verso t.p. (Lawrence A. Shepp) data sheet (b. 9/9/36)
  • Image models ... 1996:CIP t.p. (Larry Shepp) front matter (AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ)
  • A tandem storage system and its diffusion limit, 1982:title page (L.A. Shepp) page i (L.A. Shepp, Bell Laboratories)
  • OCLC, June 11, 2013(access point: Shepp, Lawrence Alan)