Related papers: Arthur Byron Coble, 1878--1966
An obituary of J.R. Dorfman. The focus is on his scientific career and on his many important publications.
Leo Breiman was a highly creative, influential researcher with a down-to-earth personal style and an insistence on working on important real world problems and producing useful solutions. This paper is a short review of Breiman's extensive…
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) will celebrate its 50th Anniversary in 2013. As part of its celebration, COPSS intends to publish a book with contributions from the past recipients of its four awards, namely the…
This short note is a comment on a historical aspect of a famous formula dating from the 18th century.
A short biography of Hans Bethe.
This is the author's PhD-thesis, which was written in 2006. The version posted here is identical to the printed one. Instead of an abstract, the short list of contents: Preface 5 1 Introduction 9 2 K-theory and cyclic type homology theories…
A comprehensive review on Cook's contribution in the theory of NP-Completeness with relations to modern mathematics.
Withdrawn; replaced by longer, more detailed paper quant-ph/0010065.
In this paper I shall try to sketch some typical aspects of Erich Lehmann's contributions to statistics through his research, his teaching, his service to the profession and his personality.
A mixture of an historical article, and of a survey of recent developments, containing also a couple of new results.
The paper is withdrawn by the authors and replaced be an improved and extended version arxiv: 0812.2968
This is a collection of three written discussions of the paper "sequential quasi-Monte Carlo sampling" by M. Gerber and N. Chopin, following the presentation given before the Royal Statistical Society in London on December 10th, 2014.
We present a theoretical as well as experimental investigation of a population of self-replicating segments of code subject to random mutation and survival of the fittest. Under the assumption that such a system constitutes a minimal system…
This is the fourth of a series of papers surveying some small part of the remarkable work of our friend and colleague Nigel Kalton. We have written it as part of a tribute to his memory. It contains almost no new results. This time we…
In this note we re-examine the analysis of the paper "On the martingale property of stochastic exponentials" by B. Wong and C.C. Heyde, Journal of Applied Probability, 41(3):654-664, 2004. Some counterexamples are presented and alternative…
In the article "The Tale of Two Queens and Two Towering Figures" published in CNJ in 2012 (CNJ vol. 57 No. 5, pp. 304-315), we discussed the contributions of Copernicus and Newton to coin minting and monetary reforms, as well as the…
This paper has been withdrawn by Wenji Deng (e-mail: [email protected]) for further modification at Oct. 12, 1998. {PACS: 03.75.Fi, 05.30.Jp.64.60.-i, 32.80.Pj}
Invited contribution to the collective book "The Birth of String Theory"
The history of the development of the concept of complex numbers from the 16th to 19th centuries. The origin and refinement of the geometric and physical meaning of complex numbers, the emergence of vectoral analysis.
These notes form an introduction to cosmology with special emphasis on large scale structure, the cmb anisotropy and inflation. In some places a basic familiarity with particle physics is assumed, but otherwise no special knowledge is…