George Zipf was a Harvard linguistics professor who is best known for formulating the probability distribution that seems to govern the frequency of words in a text, the population ranks of cities in a country, and many other rank-size variables. The distribution is known as Zipf's law in his honor, and also as the zeta distribution, because of its relation to the Riemann zeta function.
Zipf's books include
It is not true, as has been rumored, that George often exhorted his students to win just one more for the Zipfer
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