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August 28, 2015
Paul Shaman delves into the history of the Putnam Mathematics Competition, and some of its notable laureates. He writes:
The William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition is held annually. Undergraduates at schools in the US and Canada are eligible, and many of those who do well go on to have distinguished…
Gopinath Kallianpur, distinguished probabilist, passed away on February 19, 2015. He was Alumni Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill for nearly 25 years; Professor Emeritus since retirement. He is survived by his wife Krishna, daughters Asha and Kalpana, and granddaughters Yashwina and Kashmira.
Born in Mangalore, Karnataka…
The Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability welcomes nominations for the third Wolfgang Doeblin Prize to be awarded at the 9th World Congress of Probability and Statistics, Toronto, in July 2016.
The Wolfgang Doeblin Prize was founded in 2011. It is awarded bi-annually to a single individual for…
Some thoughts about the relations between statistics and probability theory
Erwin Bolthausen, University of Zürich and Kyoto University, delivered this IMS Presidential ADdress at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Seattle, WA, on August 10, 2015.
If one opens any scientific work about a topic where statistics plays a role, there…