Editing Herbert Robbins (section)

==Selected writings==
;Books by Herbert Robbins
* ''What is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods'', with [[Richard Courant]], London: Oxford University Press, 1941.
* "Great Expectations: The Theory of Optimal Stopping", with Y. S. Chow and [[David Siegmund]]  Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1971.
* "Introduction to Statistics", with  John Van Ryzin,  Science Research Associates, 1975.

;Articles (selection)
* A theorem on graphs with an application to a problem on traffic control, ''American Mathematical Monthly'', vol. '''46''' (1939), pp.&nbsp;281–283.
* The [[central limit theorem]] for dependent [[random variable]]s, with [[Wassily Hoeffding]], ''Duke Mathematical Journal'', vol. '''15''' (1948), pp.&nbsp;773–780.
* A [[stochastic approximation]] method, with Sutton Monro, ''Annals of Mathematical Statistics'', vol. '''22''', no. 3 (September 1951), pp.&nbsp;400–407.
* Some aspects of the sequential design of experiments, in "Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society", vol. 58, 1952.
*  Two-stage procedures for estimating the difference between means, with Ghurye, SG, "Biometrika", 41(1), 146–152, 1954.
* The strong law of large numbers when the first moment does not exist, with [[Cyrus Derman|C. Derman]], in the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'',  vol. 41, 1955.
* An empirical Bayes approach to statistics, in ''Proceedings of the Third Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability'', Jerzy Neyman, ed., vol. 1,  Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1956, pp.&nbsp;157–163.
* On the asymptotic theory of fixed-width sequential confidence intervals for the mean, with Chow, Y.S., "The Annals of Mathematical Statistics", 36(2), 457–462, 1965.
* Statistical methods related to the law of the iterated logarithm, "The Annals of Mathematical Statistics", 41(5), 1397–1409, 1970.
* Optimal stopping, "The American Mathematical Monthly", 77(4), 333–343, 1970.
* A convergence theorem for nonnegative almost supermartingales and some applications, with  [[David Siegmund]], "Optimizing methods in statistics", 233–257, 1971.
* Sequential tests involving two populations, with  [[David Siegmund]],  "Journal of the American Statistical Association, 132–139, 1974.
*A class of dependent random variables and their maxima, with Lai, T.L.  "Probability Theory and Related Fields", 42(2), 89–111, 1978
* Asymptotically efficient adaptive allocation rules with TL Lai, in "Advances in applied mathematics", vol. 6, 1985.
* Sequential choice from several populations with [[Michael N. Katehakis|M. N. Katehakis]], in the ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America'',  vol. 92, 1995.