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{{short description|American mathematician}}
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{{Infobox scientist
| name = Robert R Coveyou
| birth_date = February 9, 1915
| birth_place = [[Petoskey, Michigan|Petoskey]], [[Michigan]], US
| death_date = {{death date|mf=yes|1996|2|19}}
| death_place = [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee|Oak Ridge]], [[Tennessee]], US
| nationality = [[United States|American]]
| field = [[Mathematics]]<br /> [[Computer science]]
| work_institutions = [[Oak Ridge National Laboratory]]
| alma_mater = [[University of Chicago]]<br />[[University of Tennessee]]
| known_for = [[Pseudorandom number generator|Pseudo-Random Number Generators]], [[Medical physics|Medical Physics]]
}}
'''Robert R.
An expert on [[Pseudorandom number generator|pseudo-random number generators]], today he is probably best known for the title of an article published around 1970: "Random Number Generation is too Important to be Left to Chance".<ref>{{cite book |last=Coveyou|first=R.R. |editor1=Agins |editor-first=B.R. | editor2=Kalos | editor2-first=M.H. |title=A collection of papers presented by invitation at the Symposia on Applied Probability and Monte Carlo Methods and Modern Aspects of Dynamics sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research at the 1967 National Meeting of SIAM in Washington, D.C. | publisher=SIAM | series=Studies in Applied Mathematics | volume=3 |date=1969 |pages=70–111 |chapter=Random Number Generation is too Important to be Left to Chance }}</ref><ref>Peterson, Ivars. ''The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari.'' Wiley, NY, 1998. (pp. 178) {{isbn|0-471-16449-6}}</ref>
Coveyou was an original member of the small group of radiation protection specialists at the University of Chicago assembled under the leadership of [[Ernest O. Wollan]] in 1942/43 and moved to [[Oak Ridge, Tennessee]] as part of the [[Manhattan Project]].<ref name="atomicheritage"/>
After the end of [[World War II]] he returned to Chicago to finish his undergraduate degree in Mathematics, and in the following year he received his master's degree from the University of Tennessee, both while employed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He then returned to the laboratory for the remainder of his career, retiring in 1976.
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==External links==
* [https://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/Files/Pub57692.pdf HISTORY OF THE ENGINEERING PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS DIVISION 1955–1993]
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* [https://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_290783 Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-0295]
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