Abe Sklar (November 25, 1925 – October 30, 2020) was an American mathematician and a professor of applied mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech) and the inventor of copulas in probability theory.
[1] Sklar was born in Chicago to Jewish parents who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine.
He attended Von Steuben High School and later enrolled at the University of Chicago in 1942, when he was only 16.
Sklar went on to become a student of Tom M. Apostol at the California Institute of Technology, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1956.
His students at IIT have included geometers Clark Kimberling and Marjorie Senechal.