A. Ross Eckler, Jr.
| A. Ross Eckler, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 29, 1927 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | logologist, centarian researcher |
Albert Ross Eckler, Jr. (born August 29, 1927, Boston, Massachusetts) is a logologist and statistician, the son of statistician A. Ross Eckler. He received a B.A. from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University.
While at Bell Labs, Eckler co-authored Mathematical Models of Target Coverage and Missile Allocation with Stefan A. Burr.[1] This was the first monograph published by the Military Operations Research Society.[citation needed]
Eckler is the former publisher and editor of Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics and wrote a book on logology, Making the Alphabet Dance (ISBN 0312140320). He is also the author of The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years, a history of the National Puzzlers' League (NPL).[2] He and his wife Faith have been married for more than 50 years,[3] and are former NPL editors under the collective nom de plume "Faro" (with variant forms "FAro" for Faith and "faRO" for Ross).[citation needed]
Eckler's hobbies are genealogy and supercentenarian research. Eckler has disproved exaggerated age claims such as those of Charlie Smith and George Fruits while authenticating others such as Delina Filkins (1815–1928).
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- ^ Eckler, Jr., Albert Ross; Burr, Stefan (1972). Mathematical models of target coverage and missile allocation (1st ed.). Military Operations Research Society, Alexandria, Va.. ASIN B0006W2E2O. OCLC 1183447.
- ^ Eckler, Jr., Albert Ross (1998). The National Puzzlers' League, The First 115 Years (1st ed.). National Puzzlers' League, New York. ASIN B001B3MEEU. OCLC 55705246.
- ^ Farrell, Jeremiah. "Meet the Ecklers". http://wordways.com. http://wordways.com/meetEcklers.htm. Retrieved 8 March 2010.
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