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October 2, 2020
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.…
September 26, 2020
A new issue of Brazilian Journal of Probability and Statistics has been published.
You can get a summary in PDF-format at:
https://www.imstat.org/publications/bjps/bjps_34_4/bjps_34_4.pdf
If you or your library has subscribed to the journal, electronic access to the full journal articles is at:
https://projecteuclid.org/ or https://www.jstor.org/…