Karlin was born in Janów,Poland and immigrated toChicago as a child. Raised in anOrthodoxJewish household, Karlin became an atheist in his teenage years and remained an atheist for the rest of his life. Later in life he told his three children, who all became scientists, that walking down the street without a yarmulke on his head for the first time was a milestone in his life.[3]
Throughout his career, Karlin made fundamental contributions to the fields of mathematical economics,bioinformatics, game theory, evolutionary theory, biomolecular sequence analysis, andtotal positivity.[4] Karlin authored ten books and more than 450 articles. He did extensive work inmathematical population genetics. In the early 1990s, Karlin andStephen Altschul developed the Karlin-Altschul statistics, a basis for the highly used sequence similarity software programBLAST.[3]
Karlin, Samuel;Arrow, Kenneth J.;Suppes, Patrick (1960).Mathematical models in the social sciences, 1959: Proceedings of the first Stanford symposium. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.ISBN9780804700214.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
Karlin, Samuel; Fabens, Augustus J. (1960), "A stationary inventory model with Markovian demand", inArrow, Kenneth J.;Karlin, Samuel;Suppes, Patrick (eds.),Mathematical models in the social sciences, 1959: Proceedings of the first Stanford symposium, Stanford mathematical studies in the social sciences, IV, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 159–175,ISBN9780804700214.{{citation}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
S. Karlin and H. M. Taylor.A First Course in Stochastic Processes. Academic Press, 1975 (second edition).
S. Karlin and H. M. Taylor.A Second Course in Stochastic Processes. Academic Press, 1981.
S. Karlin and H. M. Taylor.An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Third Edition. Academic Press, 1998.ISBN0-12-684887-4
S. Karlin, D. Eisenberg, and R. Altman.Bioinformatics: Unsolved Problems and Challenges. National Academic Press Inc., 2005.ISBN978-0-309-10029-8.
S. Karlin (Ed.).Econometrics, Time Series, and Multivariate Statistics. Academic Press, 1983.ISBN978-0-12-398750-1.
S. Karlin (Author) and E. Nevo (Editor).Evolutionary Processes and Theory. Academic Press, 1986.ISBN978-0-12-398760-0.
S. Karlin.Mathematical Methods and Theory in Games, Programming, and Economics. Dover Publications, 1992.ISBN978-0-486-67020-1.
S. Karlin and E. Nevo (Eds.).Population Genetics and Ecology. Academic Press, 1976.ISBN978-0-12-398560-6.
S. Karlin and W. J. Studden.Tchebycheff systems: With applications in analysis and statistics (pure and applied mathematics). Interscience Publishers, 1966 (1st edition). ASIN B0006BNV2C.
S Karlin and S. Lessard.Theoretical Studies on Sex Ratio Evolution. Princeton University Press, 1986.ISBN978-0-691-08412-1
S. Karlin.Theory of Infinite Games. Addison Wesley Longman Ltd. Inc., 1959. ASIN B000SNID12.
S. Karlin.Total Positivity, Vol. 1. Stanford, 1968. ASIN B000LZG0Xu.
^Artstein, Zvi (1980). "Discrete and continuous bang-bang and facial spaces, or: Look for the extreme points".SIAM Review.22 (2):172–185.doi:10.1137/1022026.JSTOR2029960.MR0564562.
