This page is prepared by wentian li of north shore LIJ research institute, new york city. you are the visitor no. since January 1, 1999. Zipf's law, named after the Harvard linguistic professor George Kingsley Zipf (1902-1950), is the observation that frequency of occurrence of some event ( P ), as a function of the rank ( i) when the rank is determined by the above frequency of occurrence, is a ...