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It's not exactly analogous to what's described in the article, but related: John Tukey almost always dressed very casually.

I'm always reminded of the FFT, which was rediscovered in 1965 by Cooley and Tukey in the 1950s.

Cooley and Tukey didn't so much invent the FFT as rediscover it.

John Tukey (I believe) suggested that there were two broad classes of charts: exploratory and descriptive.

One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was.

Such things worked for me: (A) In my career I kept running into the work of John Tukey at Princeton and Bell Labs.

Formalizing at it that way, though led Cooley and Tukey to visualize the matrix decomposition that led them to the fast logarithmic time transform that revolutionized signal processing.

I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs.

John Tukey almost always dressed very casually.

John Wilder Tukey who pioneered this technique.

:-) Cooley and Tukey invented the fast Fourier transform although I've read that Gauss had preceded them with little notice.

(I have no idea when Tukey first suggested it.

To compute the DFTs, we decompose them into "short transforms" of exponentially smaller length, say length around log n, using the Cooley-Tukey method.

And there's the issued of power spectral estimation -- did quite a lot of that via Blackman and Tukey.

On the other hand, thanks to people like John Tukey, technical folks can now spare the suit and still be taken seriously.

When I was in school it was still called the Cooley-Tukey algorithm and considered a bit of a miracle.