Martin Kruskal, the prolific Princeton mathematician whose work provided a theoretical underpinning for a new form of fiber-optic communications, controlled thermonuclear fusion and the study of black ...

Martin Kruskal, one of the world's pre-eminent applied mathematicians and mathematical physicists, died Dec. 26 in Princeton at age 81. A scientist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and a ...

Gushing down a canal one day in August, 1834, a steady, solitary wave caught the attention of a young Scottish engineer. Taken by the unique formation, he decided to follow it on horseback. Though the ...

What is the Kruskal–Wallis test? The Kruskal–Wallis test is a statistical test used to compare two or more groups for a continuous or discrete variable. It is a non-parametric test, meaning that it ...

The ANOVA analysis of variance test is a fantastic tool when your data follows the normal distribution. Should your data fall ...

William Kruskal’s appetite for knowledge was so great that he overwhelmed colleagues with bundles of essays, research data and even novels that he had read and thought others should read. The ...