From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Contributing Editor Radu Craiu writes:
In an interview for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Robert Thurman, who was, until his retirement in 2019, the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, warned listeners about the potentially noxious and certainly annoying “stink of enlightenment,” which is the prideful attitude…
The Institute of Mathematical Statistics collaborates with Cambridge University Press to publish two book series: the IMS Monographs and IMS Textbooks. IMS members get a 40% discount: see the ad in the October/November issue on page 16.
Books in these IMS series have the advantage that, in addition to…
Deadline: December 1, 2020
Puzzle Editor Anirban DasGupta offers “more or less a textbook problem” this time, which pertains to various important questions on linear polymers. He says, “It will be easy for you to read about the connections; you can figure out most of the parts very quickly.” Here …
Terry Speed had the tough task of outlining a very long—and extraordinarily productive—life, to mark C.R. Rao’s 100th birthday:
Professor Calyampudi Radhakrishna Rao (hereafter CRR) was born on September 10, 1920 in Hadagali, Karnataka State, India. He received an M.A. in mathematics in 1940 from Andhra University and an M.A.…
Aurore Delaigle, University of Melbourne, joins 23 other newly-elected scientists to the Australian Academy of Science. AAS Fellows represent some of Australia’s most outstanding scientists, and are elected by their peers for their scientific achievement, national and international profile, as well as leadership and mentorship capabilities. Read more about Aurore’s…