Richard Arnold Epstein

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Richard Arnold Epstein
Born(1927-03-05)March 5, 1927
DiedJuly 5, 2016(2016-07-05) (aged 89)
NationalityAmerican
Other namesE. P. Stein
Alma materUniversity of California, Los Angeles (BA)
University of California, Berkeley
University of Barcelona (PhD)
Known forGame theory
Scientific career
FieldsGame theory
InstitutionsParsons-Aerojet Company
Glenn L. Martin Company
TRW
Space Technology Laboratory
JPL
Hughes Aircraft

Richard Arnold Epstein (March 5, 1927 in Los Angeles, California – July 5, 2016), also known under the pseudonym E. P. Stein, was an American game theorist.

Education[edit]

Epstein obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1948. He then studied 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 space communications. In 1956, he was made a 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 gambling casinos 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]

Death[edit]

Epstein died on July 5, 2016 and was buried at Riverside National Cemetery in California.[3]

Books by Epstein[edit]

  • Richard A. Epstein, The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic (revised edition), Academic Press, 1995, ISBN 0-12-240761-X. (Second edition), Academic Press, 2009, ISBN 0-12-374940-9.

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.

Popular works under the pseudonym E. P. Stein[edit]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Contributors". IEEE Transactions on Space Electronics and Telemetry. 10: 47. 1964. doi:10.1109/TSET.1964.4335592.
  2. ^ "Theory of Gambling". Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved August 19, 2013.
  3. ^ "Richard Arnold Epstein (1927-2016) - Find a Grave". Find a Grave.

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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