Timeline: 1938
Cenacle published monthly magazine–The Scribbler, “the official voice of the Negro students enrolled in the University of Illinois,” and discussed segregation in Champaign, the debate over voluntary segregation, as well as lighter subjects.
David Harold Blackwell (1919–2010) received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Illinois, and went on to receive a master’s degree in 1939. Blackwell was a pioneer of game theory. He is noted for Theory of Games and Statistical Decision, a classic in game theory published in 1954, and for the Rao-Backwell Theorem along with Calyampud Radhakrishnan (C.R.) Rao.
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