Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Leo Breiman papers
- Dates:
- 1940-2009
- Creators:
- Breiman, Leo
- Abstract:
- This collection primarily consists of statistician and UC Berkeley faculty member Leo Breiman's personal writings, including playscripts, autobiographical reflections, poetry, and writings on topics such as Jewish identity, childhood reflections, dreams, travel experiences, and relationships. The collection holds a limited amount of professional material, including lecture materials, publications, conference material, and statistical equations.
- Extent:
- 3.25 linear feet (1 carton, 5 boxes)
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Leo Breiman papers, BANC MSS 2017/175, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection primarily consists of Breiman's personal writings, including playscripts, autobiographical reflections, poetry, and writings on topics such as Jewish identity, childhood reflections, dreams, travel experiences, and relationships. The collection holds a limited amount of professional material, including lecture materials, publications, conference material, and statistical equations.
- Biographical / historical:
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Leo Breiman (1928–2005) was a statistician known for his contributions to decision trees, ensemble methods, and predictive modeling. Leo Breiman was born in New York City in 1928. He pursued his undergraduate studies at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), earning a bachelor's degree in physics in 1948. He later obtained a master's degree in mathematics from Columbia University and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1954. Breiman joined the faculty of UC Berkeley's Department of Statistics in 1980. Breiman developed Classification and Regression Trees (CART), Bootstrap Aggregating (Bagging), and Random Forests, methods that are widely used in statistical learning and machine learning.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Mary Lou Breiman, 2017.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Jessica Tai in 2025. Materials were rehoused in archival boxes and described at the container level. Some materials have been retained in their original folders.
This collection contains material that may contain racist, sexist and/or harmful language. The retention of this material is not an endorsement of the language it contains.
- Arrangement:
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Materials within this collection maintain the original physical organization found at time of acquisition. Collection is described at the container level.
- Accruals:
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No further additions are expected.
- Physical location:
- Many Bancroft Library collections are stored off-site and advance notice may be required for use. For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the library's online catalog.
- Rules or conventions:
- DACS
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2025-03-08 00:00:58 +0000 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Some materials in these collections may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. For additional information about the University of California, Berkeley Library's permissions policy please see: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/permissions-policies
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Leo Breiman papers, BANC MSS 2017/175, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
- Location of this collection:
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University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft LibraryBerkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
- Contact:
- 510-642-6481