Biography:Ruma Falk
Ruma Falk | |
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רומה פלק | |
| Born | Oren-Aharonovich 1932 Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine |
| Died | August 15, 2020 (aged 87–88) |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Known for | Probability theory, human understanding of probability and statistics |
| Awards | George Pólya Award (1984) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Psychology, Philosophy of Mathematics |
| Institutions | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Doctoral advisor | Amos Tversky |
Ruma Falk (Hebrew: רומה פלק, née Oren-Aharonovich,[1] 1932–2020) was an Israeli psychologist and philosopher of mathematics known for her work on probability theory and human understanding of probability and statistics.[2]
Falk was born in Jerusalem,[1][2] and educated at the Herzliya Hebrew Gymnasium[2] and Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[1] She completed her PhD on the perception of chance at the Hebrew University in 1975 under the supervision of Amos Tversky,[2] and became a professor there.[1][3][2] She was married to Raphael Falk, a geneticist and historian of science.[3][2][4]
Falk won the George Pólya Award of the Mathematical Association of America with Maya Bar-Hillel in 1984 for their joint work on probability.[5] She died on August 15, 2020.[4]
Selected works
Falk was the author of books including:
- Understanding Probability and Statistics: A Book of Problems (A K Peters, 1993)[6]
- אתגרים לתאים האפורים (Challenges to the Gray Cells, Poalim Library Publishing, 2004)[7]
- יש בעיה! (There is a Problem, Poalim Library Publishing, 2013)[2]
- Many Faces of the Gambler's Fallacy: Subjective Randomness and Its Diverse Manifestations (self-published, 2016)
She also created a board game, ברירה וסיכוי (Choice and Chance).[2]
Her other publications include:
- "Some teasers concerning conditional probabilities", Cognition 11 (2): 109–122, March 1982, doi:10.1016/0010-0277(82)90021-x, PMID 7198956
- Falk, Ruma (June 1983), "Probabilistic dependence between events", The Two-Year College Mathematics Journal 14 (3): 240–247, doi:10.2307/3027094
- Falk, Ruma; Greenbaum, Charles W. (February 1995), "Significance tests die hard", Theory & Psychology 5 (1): 75–98, doi:10.1177/0959354395051004
- Falk, Ruma; Konold, Clifford (1997), "Making sense of randomness: Implicit encoding as a basis for judgment.", Psychological Review 104 (2): 301–318, doi:10.1037/0033-295x.104.2.301
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Falk, Ruma; Nickerson, R. (28 November 2016), "About the author", Many Faces of the Gambler's Fallacy, ISBN 978-1-5406-5770-1, https://books.google.com/books?id=BwD9MAAACAAJ, retrieved 2021-05-23
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 Aderet, Ofer (September 10, 2020), "2020-1932 החוקרת שבדקה מה הסיכוי" (in he), Haaretz, https://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/obit/1.9146213
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ruma Falk (1932–2000), French National Library, https://data.bnf.fr/fr/13069429/ruma_falk/, retrieved 2021-05-23
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Sarkar, Sahotra (2021). "In Memoriam: Raphael Falk, 1929–2019". Biological Theory 16 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1007/s13752-020-00368-1.
- ↑ "Probabilistic Dependence between Events", Writing Awards (Mathematical Association of America), https://www.maa.org/programs/maa-awards/writing-awards/probabilistic-dependence-between-events, retrieved 2021-05-23
- ↑ Reviews of Understanding Probability and Statistics:
- Bullard, Peter R. (1995), "none", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series D 44 (3): 412, doi:10.2307/2348718
- Carr, James R. (July 1995), "none", Mathematical Geology 27 (5): 703–704, doi:10.1007/bf02093909
- Goodman, Terry (December 1997), "none", The Mathematics Teacher 90 (9): 756
- "none", The American Statistician 48 (4): 350, November 1994, doi:10.2307/2684855
- Shotter, M. V. (March 1995), "none", Biometrics 51 (1): 386, doi:10.2307/2533360
- Wijnen, J. (September 1994), "none", Choice 32 (1), doi:10.5860/choice.32-0365
- ↑ Rokach, Aryeh (April 25, 2005), "המקרה המוזר של הסוציולוג בשעת המסיבה" (in he), Haaretz, https://www.haaretz.co.il/literature/1.1528747
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