From the Desk Of: Matthew Kressel
Piled Higher and Deeper, by Jorge Cham. This cartoon, originally published at www.phdcomics.com, echoes the sentiments in Terry Speed’s last column. You can read what he has to say about looking—really looking—for solutions, in his column on page 13 of the Jan/Feb 2012 issue, or here.…
When we heard about the new Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) that is being built in New York, a museum that bills itself as “an exciting project that will change the face of American education in mathematics,” we naturally wanted to find out how statistics and probability will be represented…
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Charles Bernard Bell, Jr. was born in New Orleans on August 20, 1928. To the statistical community he was affectionately called “Chuck.” He graduated from Xavier University at an early age, and then attended Notre Dame University where he earned a masters degree in mathematics and statistics in 1948, and…
Columbia University professor emeritus Paul Meier, renowned for his work in applying statistics to medical research, died on Sunday, August 7, 2011, in New York City. He was 87. The former chairman of the Statistics department, Paul was a force in his intellectual pursuits as well as in his leadership…
We would like to bring the following message to the attention of IMS members as it may be of interest, especially in view of Peter Hall’s Presidential Address at JSM in August about assessing our professional works.
The International Mathematical Union (IMU) is asking for comments on the possibility…