Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Emil Julius Gumbel (July 18 1891 - September 10 1966), German mathematician, pacifist and anti-Nazi campaigner. He founded the mathematical field of extreme value theory. Books about Emil Gumbel: Arthur David Brenner, Emil J. Gumbel: Weimar German Pacifist and Professor, ISBN 0391041010 External links: http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen.de/gaf/aktiv/cafeprojekt/emiljuliusgumbel.html Gumbel bio in German http://www.library.utoronto.ca/robarts/microtext/collection/pages/gumbelem.html Collection of Gumbel's papers This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.