Jakob Bernoulli, head of a dynasty of brilliant scholars, was one of the world's leading mathematicians. His great work, Ars Conjectandi, published in 1713, included a profound result that he ...

Once upon a time, there lived a family in Switzerland—by the name of Bernoulli. I mention the name because most once-students of science know of it from physics in high-school or early-college years.

The paper gives some personal recollections of the development of mathematical probability theory and its applications to statistical inference during the twenty years between the two world wars, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this note we point out an inherent difficulty in numerical identification of bacteria. The problem is that of uniqueness of the taxonomic ...