Background
Harman Leon Harter was born on August 15, 1919, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. He is the son of Harman Theodore and Mary Josie (Hough) Harter.
educator scientist statistician writer
Harman Leon Harter was born on August 15, 1919, in Keokuk, Iowa, United States. He is the son of Harman Theodore and Mary Josie (Hough) Harter.
Harman Harter finished Carthage College in 1940 with Bachelor of Arts degree. He earned Master of Arts degree from the University Illinois in 1941. And also - Doctor of Philosophy degree at the Purdue University in 1949.
Harman Harter worked in Missouri Valley College as a professor of physics from 1943 to 1944. In Purdue University he was an instructor in mathematics during 1946-48. In Michigan State College (now University) he held the position of an assistant professor of mathematics from 1949 till 1952. That year he became a civilian mathematical statistician in the organization Aerospace Research Laboratories, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base till 1964. That year he changed his workplace to a senior scientist and held it till 75. He worked in Air Force Flight dynamics Laboratory at the position of a civilian mathematician from 1976 to 1978. After that he worked in the Wright State University as a research professor of mathematics and statistics from 1979 for 5 years. And in the Air Force Institute of Technology he worked as a distinguished visiting professor during two years 1982-1984. Now Harman Harter has working as a self-employed consultant and writer from 1984. Harman is a contributor to books and a contributor of more than sixty articles to journals.
Quotations:
“At the Aerospace Research Laboratories at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, in the 1950s and 1960s, my mentors Paul R. Rider and Gertrude Blanch aroused and stimulated my interest in order statistics and in numerical analysis and computation. I was also greatly influenced by the pioneering work of E. S. Pearson and H. O. Hartley and that of A. E. Sarhan and B. G. Greenberg, as well as that of contemporaries Herbert A. David, John W. Tukey, David B. Duncan, and A. Clifford Cohen. My interest in history and bibliography has been shared with Stephen M. Stigler and Oscar Sheynin. I have also benefited greatly from collaboration with Donald B. Owen, Albert H. Moore, and N. Balakrishnan."
“As early as 1960, I began making preparations to write a book on order statistics. My first book was a by-product of this effort. Continued research during the 1960s, much of it in collaboration with Albert H. Moore, led to expansion to two volumes and then to three. The first two volumes on theory and tables were published in 1970. The proposed third volume (a bibliography) grew to eight volumes, published between 1978 and 1993. Meanwhile, with Donald B. Owen, I edited the first three volumes of Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics."
“My eight-volume bibliography of order statistics is intended to facilitate research by providing a chronological listing of publications on the subject. It includes brief summaries and lists of references and citations to aid in tracing ideas both backward and forward in time."
“Prepared under the auspices of the Institute of Math-ematical Statistics, the series of Selected Tables in Mathematical Statistics, of which I was a founding co-editor, was designed to provide a vehicle for the publication of useful tables of intermediate length (too long to be accepted by a journal, but too short to be published separately in book form).”
Harman is a fellow of International Statistical Institute, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, American Statistical Association, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, National Association of Retired Federal Employees (legislative officer).
Harter enjoys reading, church work, and he is sports fan (baseball).
Harman married Alice Lauretta Madden on October 23, 1943.