DOCSLIB.ORG

Bibliography

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text

Load more

Chapter 2 BIBLIOGRAPHY This annotated bibliography of Frederick Mosteller's writings has four sec­ tions: books, numbered Bl through B56; papers, numbered PI through P182; miscellaneous writings, numbered Ml through M36; and reviews, numbered Rl through R25. Ordinarily we list publications chronologically within each of these sections. We deviate from that ordering to bring to­ gether closely related books. For example, B19 (1984) is an expanded edi­ tion of B18 (1964). We list Fred's name as it appeared on the publication, usually "Frederick Mosteller." For works with other authors, we list the names in the order that they appeared on the publication. For publications by a committee or panel, we list the members. If, in addition to being one of the editors of a book, Fred is author or coauthor of a chapter, we list that chapter under the book but not among the papers. For example, B47 was edited by Hoaglin, Mosteller, and Tukey, and they also coauthored Chapter 9. We therefore list Chapter 9 under B47. We give any additional information that we have, such as new editions, different printings, and translations. We realize that our information about translations is not complete, nor do we always know of reprinting of papers or chapters. When a paper is an abridgment of a chapter or another paper, we indicate that. BOOKS BI Hadley Cantril and Research Associates in the Office of Public Opinion Re­ search, Princeton University. Gauging Public Opinion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. Second printing, 1947. • Chapter IV. Frederick Mosteller and Hadley Cantril. "The use and value of a battery of questions." pp. 66-73. • Chapter VII. Frederick Mosteller. "The reliability of interview­ ers' ratings." pp. 98-106. • Chapter VIII. William Salstrom with Daniel Katz, Donald Rugg, Frederick Mosteller, and Frederick Williams. "Inter­ viewer bias and rapport." pp. 107-118. • Chapter XIV. Frederick Williams and Frederick Mosteller. "Ed­ ucation and economic status as determinants of opinion." pp. 195-208. S. E. Fienberg et al. (eds.), A Statistical Model © Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1990 8 Chapter 2 • Appendix II. Frederick Mosteller. "Correcting for interviewer bias." pp. 286~288. • Appendix III. Frederick Mosteller. "Sampling and breakdowns: technical notes." pp. 288~296. • Appendix IV. Frederick Mosteller. "Charts indicating confi­ dence limits and critical differences between percentages." pp. 297~301. B2 H.A. Freeman, Milton Friedman, Frederick Mosteller, and W. Allen Wallis, editors. Sampling Inspection: Principles, Procedures, and Tables for Sin­ gle, Double, and Sequential Sampling in Acceptance Inspection and Quality Control Based on Percent Defective. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1948. By the Statistical Research Group, Columbia University, Applied Math­ ematics Panel, Office of Scientific Research and Development. "The manuscript was prepared by H .A. Freeman, Milton Friedman, Fred­ erick Mosteller, Leonard J. Savage, David H. Schwartz, and W. Allen Wallis .... Chaps. 6 and 13 are primarily the work of Messrs. Mosteller and Schwartz ... " (p. vii). • Chapter 6. Frederick Mosteller and David H. Schwartz. "Use of sampling inspection for quality control." pp. 55~68. • Chapter 13. Frederick Mosteller and David H. Schwartz. "Ap­ plication of the standard procedure to control sampling." pp. 135~136. B3 Frederick Mosteller, Herbert Hyman, Philip J. McCarthy, Eli S. Marks, and David B. Truman, with the collaboration of Leonard W. Doob, Duncan MacRae, Jr., Frederick F. Stephan, Samuel A. Stouffer, and S.S. Wilks. The Pre-election Polls of 1948: Report to the Committee on Analysis of Pre­ election Polls and Forecasts. New York: Social Science Research Council, Bulletin 60, 1949. Members of Committee on Analysis of Pre-election Polls and Forecasts: S.5. Wilks, Chairman, Frederick F. Stephan, Executive Secretary, James Phinney Baxter, 3rd, Philip M. Hauser, Carll. Hovland, V.O. Key, Isador Lubin, Frank Stanton, and Samuel A. Stouffer. Although this report was a group effort, preparation of each chapter was assigned to a particular person or persons. • Chapter V. Prepared by Frederick Mosteller. "Measuring the error." pp. 54~80. Bibliography 9 B4 William G. Cochran, Frederick Mosteller, and John W. Tukey, with the assistance of W.O. Jenkins. Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report on Sexual Behavior in the Human Male: A Report of the American Statistical Association Committee to Advise the National Research Council Commit­ tee for Research in Problems of Sex. Washington, D.C.: The American Statistical Association, 1954. Two parts of this book were published earlier-papers P33 and P34. B5 Robert R. Bush and Frederick Mosteller. Stochastic Models for Learning. New York: Wiley, 1955. B6 A group of the Commission on Mathematics of the College Entrance Ex­ amination Board. Introductory Probability and Statistical Inference for Sec­ ondary Schools: An Experimental Course. Preliminary edition. New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1957. Members of the group: Edwin C. Douglas, Frederick Mosteller, Richard S. Pieters, Donald E. Richmond, Robert E.K. Rourke, George B. Thomas, Jr., and Samuel S. Wilks. These names were inadvertently omitted from this edition. B7 Revised edition of B6, 1959. B8 A group of the Commission on Mathematics of the College Entrance Exam­ ination Board. Teachers' Notes and Answer Guide: Supplementary material for the revised preliminary edition of "Introductory Probability and Statis­ tical Inference." New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1959. Members of the group: Frederick Mosteller, Richard S. Pieters, Robert E.K. Rourke, George B. Thomas, Jr., and Samuel S. Wilks. B7 and B8 were translated by Prof. Marta C. Valincq into Spanish, and published by Comision de Educacion Estadistica dellnstituto Interamer­ icano de Estadistica Rosario (Rep. Argentina), 1961. B9 Commission on Mathematics. Program for College Preparatory Mathemat­ ics. Report of the Commission. New York: College Entrance Examination Board, 1959. Members of the Commission on Mathematics: Albert W. Tucker, Chair­ man, Carl B. Allendoerfer, Edwin C. Douglas, Howard F. Fehr, Martha Hildebrandt, Albert E. Meder, Jr., Morris Meister, Frederick Mosteller, Eugene P. Northrop, Ernest R. Ranucci, Robert E.K. Rourke, George B. Thomas, Jr., Henry Van Engen, and Samuel S. Wilks. BI6 Frederick Mosteller, Robert E.K. Rourke, and George B. Thomas, Jr. Read­ ing, MA: Addison-Wesley. BIO Probability with Statistical Applications, 1961. Second printing, 1965. 10 Chapter 2 Bll Probability with Statistical Applications, Second Edition, 1970. Extensive revision of BI0. World Student Series Edition, Third Printing, 1973, of B11. Published for the Open University in England. BI2 Probability and Statistics, Official textbook for Continental Classroom, 1961. Derived from BI0 by abridgment and slight rewriting. Also translated into Turkish. BI3 Probability: A First Course, 1961. Derived from BI0 by abridgment and slight rewriting. Also translated into Russian. And a Bulgarian translation into Russian. Sofia, Bulgaria: J. Stoyanov, 1975. BI4 Probability: A First Course, Second Edition, 1970. BI5 Teacher's Manual for Probability: A First Course, 1961. BI6 Instructor's Manual to Accompany Probability with Statistical Applications, Second Edition, and Probability: A First Course, Second Edition, 1970. BI7 Frederick Mosteller, Keewhan Choi, and Joseph Sedransk. A Catalogue Sur­ vey of College Mathematics Courses. Mathematical Association of Amer­ ica, Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, Report Number 4, December 1961. BI8 Frederick Mosteller and David L. Wallace. Inference and Disputed Author­ ship: The Federalist. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1964. Related papers: P53, P58, and P159. BI9 Frederick Mosteller and David 1. Wallace. Applied Bayesian and Classical Inference: The Case of The Federalist Papers. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1984. Second Edition of B18. A new chapter dealing with authorship work published from about 1969 to 1983 was added in the second edition. A new, lengthy Analytic Table of Contents replaced the original Table of Contents. B20 Panel on Mathematics for the Biological, Management, and Social Sciences. Committee on the Undergraduate Program in Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America. Tentative Recommendations for the Undergradu­ ate Mathematics Program of Students in the Biological, Management and Social Sciences. Berkeley, CA: CUPM Central Office, 1964. Bibliography 11 Panel members: John G. Kemeny, Chairman, Joseph Berger, Robert R. Bush, David Gale, Samuel Goldberg, Harold Kuhn, Frederick Mosteller, Theodor D. Sterling, Gerald L. Thompson, Robert M. Thrall, A.W. Tucker, and Geoffrey S. Watson. B21 Frederick Mosteller. Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solu­ tions. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1965. Also translated into Russian, 1975. A second edition of the Russian translation was published in 1985. For this edition, Frederick Mosteller provided a new problem, "Distribution of prime divisors." B22 Frederick Mosteller. Fifty Challenging Problems in Probability with Solu­ tions. New York: Dover, 1987. Reissue of B21. B23 Panel on Undergraduate Education in Mathematics of the Committee on Support of Research in the Mathematical Sciences of the National Research Council. The Mathematical Sciences: Undergraduate Education. Washing­ ton, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, 1968. Panel members: John G. Kemeny, Grace E. Bates, D.E. Christie, Llayron Clarkson, George Handelman, Frederick Mosteller, Henry
Recommended publications
  • Stevens, Stanley Smith (1906–73) Banaji M R, Hardin C D 1996 Automatic Stereotyping

    Stevens, Stanley Smith (1906–73) Banaji M R, Hardin C D 1996 Automatic Stereotyping

    Stereotypes, Social Psychology of counter-stereotypic, interventions that highlight Jost J T, Banaji M R 1994 The role of stereotyping in system- this association can produce a lowering of the default justification and the production of false consciousness. British stereotype of female l weak. The possibility of such Journal of Social Psychology 33: 1–27 strategies for inducing a shift in automatic stereotypes Katz D, Braly K 1933 Racial stereotypes in one hundred college students. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology 28: and the potential to track stereotypes through both 280–90 behavioral and brain activation measures has the Lippmann W 1922 Public Opinion. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, potential, in the future, to inform about stereotype New York representation, process, content, and mechanisms for Nosek B, Banaji M R, Greenwald A G in press Harvesting social change. intergroup attitudes and stereotypes from a demonstration website. Group Dynamics See also: Mental Representation of Persons, Psy- Phelps E A, O’Connor K J, Cunningham W A, Funayama S, chology of; Prejudice in Society; Schemas, Frames, and Gatenby J C, Gore J C, Banaji M R 2000 Performance on indirect measures of race evaluation predicts amygdala acti- Scripts in Cognitive Psychology; Schemas, Social vation. Journal of Cognitie Neuroscience 12: 729–38 Psychology of; Small-group Interaction and Gender; Tajfel H 1969 Cognitive aspects of prejudice. Journal of Social Stigma, Social Psychology of Issues 25: 79–97 Tajfel H, Turner J C 1986 The social identity theory of intergroup behavior. In: Worchel S, Austin W A (eds.) Psychology of Intergroup Relations. Nelson-Hall, Chicago, Bibliography pp.
  • Strength in Numbers: the Rising of Academic Statistics Departments In

    Strength in Numbers: the Rising of Academic Statistics Departments In

    Agresti · Meng Agresti Eds. Alan Agresti · Xiao-Li Meng Editors Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics DepartmentsStatistics in the U.S. Rising of Academic The in Numbers: Strength Statistics Departments in the U.S. Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. Alan Agresti • Xiao-Li Meng Editors Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U.S. 123 Editors Alan Agresti Xiao-Li Meng Department of Statistics Department of Statistics University of Florida Harvard University Gainesville, FL Cambridge, MA USA USA ISBN 978-1-4614-3648-5 ISBN 978-1-4614-3649-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2 Springer New York Heidelberg Dordrecht London Library of Congress Control Number: 2012942702 Ó Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. Exempted from this legal reservation are brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis or material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the Copyright Law of the Publisher’s location, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer.
  • JOHN WILDER TUKEY 16 June 1915 — 26 July 2000

    JOHN WILDER TUKEY 16 June 1915 — 26 July 2000

    Tukey second proof 7/11/03 2:51 pm Page 1 JOHN WILDER TUKEY 16 June 1915 — 26 July 2000 Biogr. Mems Fell. R. Soc. Lond. 49, 000–000 (2003) Tukey second proof 7/11/03 2:51 pm Page 2 Tukey second proof 7/11/03 2:51 pm Page 3 JOHN WILDER TUKEY 16 June 1915 — 26 July 2000 Elected ForMemRS 1991 BY PETER MCCULLAGH FRS University of Chicago, 5734 University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA John Wilder Tukey was a scientific generalist, a chemist by undergraduate training, a topolo- gist by graduate training, an environmentalist by his work on Federal Government panels, a consultant to US corporations, a data analyst who revolutionized signal processing in the 1960s, and a statistician who initiated grand programmes whose effects on statistical practice are as much cultural as they are specific. He had a prodigious knowledge of the physical sci- ences, legendary calculating skills, an unusually sharp and creative mind, and enormous energy. He invented neologisms at every opportunity, among which the best known are ‘bit’ for binary digit, and ‘software’ by contrast with hardware, both products of his long associa- tion with Bell Telephone Labs. Among his legacies are the fast Fourier transformation, one degree of freedom for non-additivity, statistical allowances for multiple comparisons, various contributions to exploratory data analysis and graphical presentation of data, and the jack- knife as a general method for variance estimation. He popularized spectrum analysis as a way of studying stationary time series, he promoted exploratory data analysis at a time when the subject was not academically respectable, and he initiated a crusade for robust or outlier-resist- ant methods in statistical computation.
  • Notices: Highlights

    Notices: Highlights

    ------------- ----- Tacoma Meeting (June 18-20)-Page 667 Notices of the American Mathematical Society June 1987, Issue 256 Volume 34, Number 4, Pages 601 - 728 Providence, Rhode Island USA ISSN 0002-9920 Calendar of AMS Meetings THIS CALENDAR lists all meetings which have been approved by the Council prior to the date this issue of Notices was sent to the press. The summer and annual meetings are joint meetings of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society. The meeting dates which fall rather far in the future are subject to change; this is particularly true of meetings to which no numbers have yet been assigned. Programs of the meetings will appear in the issues indicated below. First and supplementary announcements of the meetings will have appeared in earlier issues. ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS presented at a meeting of the Society are published in the journal Abstracts of papers presented to the American Mathematical Society in the issue corresponding to that of the Notices which contains the program of the meeting. Abstracts should be submitted on special forms which are available in many departments of mathematics and from the headquarter's office of the Society. Abstracts of papers to be presented at the meeting must be received at the headquarters of the Society in Providence, Rhode Island, on or before the deadline given below for the meeting. Note that the deadline for abstracts for consideration for presentation at special sessions is usually three weeks earlier than that specified below. For additional information. consult the meeting announcements and the list of organizers of special sessions.
  • John W. Tukey 1915–2000

    John W. Tukey 1915–2000

    John W. Tukey 1915–2000 A Biographical Memoir by David R. Brillinger 2018 National Academy of Sciences. Any opinions expressed in this memoir are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academy of Sciences. JOHN WILDER TUKEY June 16, 1915–July 26, 2000 Elected to the NAS, 1961 John Wilder Tukey was renowned for research and service in academia, industry, and government. He was born June 16, 1915, in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the only child of Adah M. Takerand Ralph H. Tukey. His parents had grad- uated first and second in the Bates College class of 1898. John had unusual talents from an early age. He could read when he was three, and had remarkable powers of mental calculation. His father had obtained a doctorate in Latin from Yale University and then moved on to teach and be principal at New Bedford High School. His mother was a substitute teacher there. Perhaps as a consequence of these backgrounds, Tukey was schooled at home, but he did attend various classes at the high school. By David R. Brillinger Tukey’s wife, Elizabeth Rapp, was born on March 2, 1920, in Ocean City, New Jersey. She went to Temple Univer- sity and was later valedictorian in the 1944 class in business administration at Radcliffe College. About meeting John, she commented that the first time she saw him he was sitting in the front row of a public lecture asking quite difficult questions of the speaker. They later met at a folkdance class that John was teaching.
  • 26 February 2016 ECE 438 Lecture Notes

    26 February 2016 ECE 438 Lecture Notes

    ECE 438 Lecture Notes Page 1 2/26/2016 Computer Pioneers - James William Cooley 2/26/16, 10:58 AM IEEE-CS Home | IEEE Computer Society History Committee Computer Pioneers by J. A. N. Lee « Cook, Stephen A. index Coombs, Allen W. M. » James William Cooley Born September 18, 1926; with John Tukey, creator of the fast Fourier transform. Education: BA, arts, Manhattan College, 1949; MA, mathematics, Columbia University, 1951; PhD, applied mathematics, Columbia University, 1961. Professional Experience: programmer, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, 1953-1956; research assistant, mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University, 1956-1962; research staff, IBM Watson Research Center, 1962-1991; professor, electrical engineering, University of Rhode Island, 1991-present. Honors and Awards: Contribution Award, Audio and Acoustics Society, 1976; Meritorious Service Award, ASSP Society, 1980; Society Award, Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing, 1984; IEEE Centennial Award, 1984; fellow, IEEE James W. Cooley started his career in applied mathematics and computing when he worked and studied under Professor F.J. Murray at Columbia University. He then became a programmer in the numerical weather prediction group at John von Neumann's computer project at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. [See the biography of Jule Charney.] In 1956, he started working as a research assistant at the Courant Institute at New York University, New York. Here he worked on numerical methods and programming of quantum mechanical calculations (Cooley 1961). This led to his thesis for his PhD degree from Columbia University. In 1962 he obtained a position as a research staff member at the IBM Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York.
  • Vol 1 Ross A. Mcfarland Papers

    Vol 1 Ross A. Mcfarland Papers

    Ross A. McFarland Collection in Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors Engineering 1 Catalog of the Library Mary Ann Hoffman Fordham Health Sciences Library Wright State University School of Medicine Dayton, Ohio 1987 Fordham Library Publication No. 2 ©1987 Ross A. McFarland 1901-1976 CONTENTS Preface vi Introduction vii Acknowledgements ix Catalog 1 Vidéocassettes ИЗ Journals 114 Technical Reports Series 117 Name Index 119 Subject Index 146 PREFACE The Ross A. McFarland Collection in Aerospace Medicine and Human Factors Engineering at the Fordham Health Sciences Library, Wright State University School of Medicine, provides an unparalleled scientific resource and data base for physicians, life scientists, engineers and others working at the leading edge of human progress, especially those in the areas of aviation, space and advanced ground transportation. The Collection is regularly consulted by those currently pioneering these fields and is an invaluable source of information constituting the base upon which future progress is being constructed. I met Dr. McFarland in 1958 and came to know him -well. I observed first-hand his pioneering concepts in human factors, enhanced immeasurably by his articulate communications. Starting in the 1930's, he almost singlehandedly launched the human factors effort in aviation, directly collecting data on airline pilot fatigue and other major operational flight safety aspects. Folio-wing Dr. McFarland's untimely death in 1976, an event -widely recognized as taking from us the father of aerospace human factors, his wife, Mrs. Emily McFarland, decided to deed his library and scientific papers to Wright State University School of Medicine, Fordham Health Sciences Library. This gift consisted of more than 6,000 print items and approximately 400 linear feet of scientific manuscripts, unpublished reports, research data and correspondence, covering 50 years of professional work and research by Dr.
  • From the Collections of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ

    From the Collections of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ

    From the collections of the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton, NJ These documents can only be used for educational and research purposes (“Fair use”) as per U.S. Copyright law (text below). By accessing this file, all users agree that their use falls within fair use as defined by the copyright law. They further agree to request permission of the Princeton University Library (and pay any fees, if applicable) if they plan to publish, broadcast, or otherwise disseminate this material. This includes all forms of electronic distribution. Inquiries about this material can be directed to: Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library 65 Olden Street Princeton, NJ 08540 609-258-6345 609-258-3385 (fax) [email protected] U.S. Copyright law test The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or other reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or other reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use,” that user may be liable for copyright infringement. The Princeton Mathematics Community in the 1930s Transcript Number 36 (PMC36) © The Trustees of Princeton University, 1985 ALBERT TUCKER OVERVIEW OF MATHEMATICS AT PRINCETON IN THE 1930s This is an interview on 8 October 1984 of Albert Tucker in Princeton, New Jersey.
  • 34 6 ISSUE.Indd

    34 6 ISSUE.Indd

    Volume 34 Issue 6 IMS Bulletin July 2005 Iain Johnstone elected to NAS Iain M Johnstone was elected ce airs Offi UC Berkeley Aff Photo: Public foray to Berkeley, has been CONTENTS to the US National Academy his scientifi c base ever since. 1 Iain Johnstone of Sciences on May 3 2005. Initially appointed in the Th e NAS elects 72 members Statistics Department, since 2 Members’ News & contacts each year over every branch 1989 his joint appointment 4 Obituary: William Kruskal of science. Of these, typically in Statistics and Biostatistics 5 New UK Statistics Centre fi ve or fewer work in the refl ects the duality of his mathematical sciences, so Iain research. His work in medical 6 Terence’s Stuff : A Toast to should be proud of this recognition. statistics is wide-ranging: he is the model Posters Iain was born in Melbourne, Australia versatile statistician, able to contribute 7 Donate/request IMS and took his BSc and MSc degrees at the right across theory, methodology and journals Australian National University in the late applications, showing how the diff erent 8 Abel Prize for Mathematics 1970s. His Master’s thesis led to his fi rst aspects of our fi eld should support one published paper, joint with his advisor another seamlessly. 9 Mu Sigma Rho Chris Heyde; more unusually his under- Iain’s wider contributions to the 11 Medallion Lecture preview graduate dissertation was itself published profession are prodigious. His term as 13 Minneapolis Events in a monograph series. He then moved to President of IMS (2001–2) was the cul- the USA for his PhD at Cornell, where mination of a remarkable and prolonged 14 IMS Meetings his advisor was Larry Brown.
  • FINITE ADDITIVITY VERSUS COUNTABLE ADDITIVITY: De FINETTI and SAVAGE

    FINITE ADDITIVITY VERSUS COUNTABLE ADDITIVITY: De FINETTI and SAVAGE

    FINITE ADDITIVITY VERSUS COUNTABLE ADDITIVITY: De FINETTI AND SAVAGE N. H. BINGHAM Electronic J. History of Probability and Statistics 6.1 (2010), 33p R´esum´e L'arri`ere-planhistorique, d'abord de l'additivit´ed´enombrable et puis de l'additivit´efinie, est ´etudi´eici. Nous discutons le travail de de Finetti (en particulier, son livre posthume, de Finetti (2008)), mais aussi les travaux de Savage. Tous deux sont surtout (re)connus pour leurs contributions au domaine des statistiques; nous nous int´eressonsici `aleurs apports du point de vue de la th´eoriedes probabilit´es.Le probl`emede mesure est discut´e{ la possibilit´ed'´etendreune mesure `a tout sous-ensemble d'un espace de proba- bilit´e. La th´eoriedes jeux de hasard est ensuite pr´esent´eepour illustrer les m´eritesrelatifs de l'additivit´efinie et d´enombrable. Puis, nous consid´eronsla coh´erencedes d´ecisions,o`uun troisi`emecandidat apparait { la non-additivit´e. Nous ´etudionsalors l’influence de diff´erents choix d'axiomes de la th´eoriedes ensembles. Nous nous adressons aux six raisons avanc´espar Seidenfeld (2001) `al'appui de l'additivit´efinie, et faisons la critique des plusi`eresapproches `a la fr´equencelimite. Abstract The historical background of first countable additivity, and then finite ad- ditivity, in probability theory is reviewed. We discuss the work of the most prominent advocate of finite additivity, de Finetti (in particular, his posthu- mous book de Finetti (2008)), and also the work of Savage. Both were most noted for their contributions to statistics; our focus here is more from the point of view of probability theory.
  • Bachelier and His Times: a Conversation with Bernard Bru ∗†‡

    Bachelier and His Times: a Conversation with Bernard Bru ∗†‡

    First appeared in FINANCE AND STOCHASTICS (2001) Appears in the book MATHEMATICAL FINANCE -- BACHELIER CONGRESS 2000 H. Geman et al. editors, 2002, Springer Verlag Bachelier and his Times: A Conversation with Bernard Bru ¤yz Murad S. Taqqu Boston University April 25, 2001 Abstract Louis Bachelier defended his thesis \Theory of Speculation" in 1900. He used Brownian motion as a model for stock exchange performance. This conversation with Bernard Bru illustrates the scienti¯c climate of his times and the conditions under which Bachelier made his discover- ies. It indicates that Bachelier was indeed the right person at the right time. He was involved with the Paris stock exchange, was self-taught but also took courses in probability and on the theory of heat. Not being a part of the \scienti¯c establishment," he had the opportunity to develop an area that was not of interest to the mathematicians of the period. He was the ¯rst to apply the trajectories of Brownian mo- tion, and his theories pre¯gure modern mathematical ¯nance. What follows is an edited and expanded version of the original conversation with Bernard Bru. Bernard Bru is the author, most recently, of Borel, L¶evy, Neyman, Pearson et les autres [38]. He is a professor at the University of Paris V where he teaches mathematics and statistics. With Marc Barbut and Ernest Coumet, he founded the seminars on the history of Probability at the EHESS (Ecole¶ des Hautes Etudes¶ en Sciences Sociales), which bring together researchers in mathematics, philosophy and the human- ities. ¤This article ¯rst appeared in Finance and Stochastics [119].
  • Once in a Lifetime March 29, 2020

    Once in a Lifetime March 29, 2020

    Once In A Lifetime March 29, 2020 The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. - Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (c. 1080) That's a poem attributed to Omar Khayyam, an 11th century Persian philosopher and all-around genius who lived near the modern-day city of Qom, the epicenter of the COVID-19 plague wracking Iran today. Here's another philosopher and all-around genius, David Byrne, saying the same thing one thousand years later. And you may ask yourself Am I right? Am I wrong? And you may say to yourself "My God! What have I done?" - Once In A Lifetime (1981) ©2020 Ben Hunt 1 All rights reserved. David Byrne lives in the modern-day city of New York, the epicenter of the COVID-19 plague wracking the United States today. It's all the same, you know. The dad in Qom coughing up a lung who loves his kids and is loved by them is exactly the same as the dad in New York coughing up a lung who loves his kids and is loved by them. I know we don't think of it that way. Hell, I know plenty of people in my home state of Alabama who don't even think a dad in Montgomery is the same as a dad in New York, much less a dad in freakin' Qom, Iran. But they are. The same, that is.