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Sylvanus A. Tyler

1914–1986

United States

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Sylvanus A. Tyler Sr. (August 21, 1914 – July 23, 1986) was an American mathematician and biostatistician. Tyler worked on the Manhattan Project at the Argonne National Laboratory, where he was one of the few African American mathematicians assigned to the project.

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