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Named after George Edward Pelham Box and Mervin Edgar Muller, though introduced earlier by Paley and Wiener.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Box-Muller transform
Today it means: A pseudorandom number sampling method for generating pairs of independent, standard, normally distributed (zero expectation, unit variance) random numbers, given a source of uniformly distributed random numbers. Full definition →