S M Stigler, Mathematical statistics in the early states,
Annals of Statistics 6 (1978), 239-275, reprinted in
S M Stigler and I M Cohen (ed.), American Contributions to
Mathematical Statistics in the Nineteenth Century, New York,
NY: Arno Publishing Company 1980 (SF STI).
DSB 1, 65-66; DAB 1, 109-110.
A J Meadow, Greenwich Observatory: Volume 2: Recent History
(1836-1975), London: Taylor & Francis 1975.
DSB 1, 84-87.
A C Aitken, To Catch the Spirit, Dunedin: University of Otago
Press 1995.
ESSU 1 20-22.
No. 133 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
G A Aitken, The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, Oxford
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DSB 1, 208-209; DNB 1, 534-537.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
146 (4) (1983)
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 1, 291-292.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 1, 402-403; DNB 1, 899-904.
From opposite p. 80 of
M Moseley, Irascible Genius: A Life of Charles Babbage,
Inventor,
London: Hutchinson 1964.
DSB 1, 354-356.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
135 (1) (1972)
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
See Bull. Inst. Math. Stats. 17 (1988), 278.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
158 (1) (1995)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
130 (4) (1967)
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
Note this portrait is of dubious authenticity - see the
articles in Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics referred to below
J L Folks, Ideas of Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State
University Press 1981.
The Official Guide to Bunhill Fields, London: Corporation of
London 1991.
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
20 (1991), 226 (see also 17 (1988), 49,
276-278, 482-3, 19 (1990), 478-479 and 21 (1992),
225-227).
D Bellhouse, A Bayesian busman's holiday, Chance 3(4)
(1990), 15-17 & 47.
DSB 1, 531-532; IES 1, 7-9; ESS Sup 14-17;
DNB (Missing Persons), 50-51.
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science,
13 (1998), 291-305 at page 294.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
134 (1) (1971)
Werke, Vol.3, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 2, 36-46; IES 1, 20; ESS 1, 216-217.
Werke, Vol.1, Basel: Birkhäuser 1989.
Eli Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the
Infinite, Basel: Birkhäuser 1986
DSB 2, 46-51; IES 1, 19; ESS 1, 215-216.
Title page of De Usu Artis Conjectandi in Jure
reproduced opposite p.287 in
James Bernoulli, Werke, Vol.3, Basel: Birkhäuser 1989.
DSB 2, 56-57; IES 1, 19-20; ESS 1, 216.
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the
Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory,
Probability Theory,Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
DSB 2, 87-89.
A Pannekoek, A History of Astronomy, London: George Allen and
Unwin 1961.
DSB 2, 97-102.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
C C Heyde and E Seneta, I.J. Bienaymé: Statistical Theory
Anticipated, New York: Springer-Verlag 1977.
IES 1, 21-22; ESS 1, 231-235.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
148 (2) (1985)
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
G Boole, Collected Logical Works, Vol. I: Studies in Logic and
Probability,
La Salle, IL: Open Court 1952.
DSB 2, 293-298; DNB 2, 831-833.
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the
Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory,
Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
DSB 2, 260-268; ESS 1, 293-294.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
DSB 2, 302-305.
The Mathematical Intelligencer 5(1) (1983).
ESS Supplement 22-23.
= BOSCOVICH, Ruggiero Giuseppe
= BOSCOVICH, Roger Joseph
L L White (ed.), Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J., F.R.S.
1711-1787, London: George Allen and Unwin 1961.
DSB 2, 326-332; ESS 1, 303-304.
A H Bowley, A Memoir of Professor Sir Arthur Bowley,
1869-1957, and his family, Petworth 1972
A conversation with George Box, Statistical Science,
2 (1987), 239-258.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 2, 576-582.
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the
Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory,
Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
A Wykes, Doctor Cardano: Physician Extraordinary, London:
Frederick Muller 1969.
DSB 3, 64-67.
From p.137 in
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography,
Springer-Verlag 1991.
D E Smith, A History of Mathematics, Vol. I, Boston, MA:
Ginn 1925 and New York, NY: Dover 1958.
DSB 3, 131-148; ESS 1, 384-385.
= TCHEBYCHEFF, Pafnuty Lvovitch
= CEBYSEV, Pafnuty Lvovitch
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem,
New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 3, 222-232; ESS 1, 429-431.
The Mathematical Intelligencer 3 (1981).
Contributions to Statistics, New York: Wiley 1982.
DSB 17, 171-173, ESSU 1, 124-125.
= CARITAT, Marie-Antoine-Jean-Nicolas
R Rashed (ed.), Sciences a l'Époque de la
Révolution Français, Paris: Blanchard 1988.
DSB 3, 383-388.
= TSCHUPROW, Alexander Alexandrovich
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
144 (3) (1981)
S Stinnett et al., Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial
Activities, American Statistician 44(2) (1990),
74-80.
ESSU 1, 167-168.
From p.56 in
A conversation with C.R. Rao, Statistical Science,
2 (1987), 53-67.
ESS Sup 36-37.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
139 (1) (1976)
J Stillwell, Mathematics and its History, Berlin: Springer
1989
DSB 1, 110-117
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
138 (1) (1975)
D J Albers, G L Alexanderson and C Reid, More Mathematical
People, Boston, MA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
D J Albers, G L Alexanderson and C Reid, More Mathematical
People, Boston, MA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
from p.236 in
A conversation with F.N. David, Statistical Science
4 (1989), 235-246.
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the
Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory,
Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
DSB 3, 591-592.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982.
ESSU 1, 181-185.
from Plate 9 (facing p.160) in
F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962.
DSB 9, 452-455; IES 1, 601-604; ESS 2, 300-302;
DNB 13, 563-564.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
N Harte and J North, The World of University College London,
London: University College London 1978.
DSB 4, 35-37; DNB 5, 780-784.
A conversation with Persi Diaconis, Statistical Science
1 (1986), 319-334.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
150 (3) (1987)
Zeitschrift für Psychologie 51 (1909); also
reprinted on p.239 of
S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurment of
Uncertainty Before 1900, Belknap (Harvard) 1986.
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society 1834-1934,
London: Royal Statistical Society 1934.
ESS Sup 54-55.
A conversation with Churchill Eisenhart, Statistical Science,
7 (1992), 512-530.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
M Littman, Planets Beyond: Discovering the Solar System,
New York: Wiley 1978.
DSB 4, 369-370.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
J Stillwell, Mathematics and its History, Berlin: Springer
1989
DSB 4, 467-484
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society 1834-1934,
London: Royal Statistical Society 1934.
DNB 6, 1090-1091.
G E Fechner, Elements of Psychophysics, ed. D.H. Howles and
E.G. Boring, New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1966.
DSB 4, 556-559.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
DSB 17, 287-289.
Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
26 (5) (1997 Sep/Oct)
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 4, 566-576.
P K Goel and A Zellner (ed.), Bayesian Inference and Decision:
Essays in Honor of Bruno de Finetti, Amsterdam: North-Holland
1986.
ESS Sep, 46-47.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DNB 7, 27-29.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
137 (1) (1974)
R A Fisher, Collected Papers, Vol.5, Adelaide: Department of
Genetics of the University of Adelaide; and also as frontispiece of
J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York:
Wiley 1978.
DSB 5, 7-11; IES 1, 352-358; ESS 3, 103-111;
DNB (1961-70), 361-362.
Biometrika 50 (1963).
From p.29 in
G A Barnard, Fisher: A Retrospective, Chance 3 (1)
(1990), 22-32.
D E Smith, A History of Mathematics, Vol. I, Boston, MA:
Ginn 1925 and New York, NY: Dover 1958.
DSB 5, 237-249.
D W Forrest, Francis Galton: The Life and Work of a Victorian
Genius, London: Paul Elek 1974.
DSB 5, 265-267; IES 1, 359-364; ESS 3, 274-276;
DNB (1901-1911), 70-72.
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem,
New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 5, 298-315; IES 1, 378-386;
ESS 3, 305-309.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 5, 466.
E S Pearson, 'Student': A Statistical Biography of William Sealy
Gosset, edited and augmented by R L Plackett with the assistance
of G A Barnard, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1990.
Reprinted from
Annals of Eugenics 9 (1939)
DSB 5, 409-413; IES 1, 409-413; ESS 1, 461-463;
DNB (1931-1940), 353-354.
S J Gould, The Individual in Darwin's World,
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1990.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 5, 506-508; IES 1, 435-437;
DNB 8, 427-428.
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science,
13 (1998), 291-305 at page 294.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
Opposite p.208 in
R Clark, J.B.S.: The Life and Work of J.B.S. Haldane,
London: Hodder and Stoughton 1968.
DSB 5, 21-23; DNB (1961-70), 473-475.
Plate 2 from
A Armitage, Edmond Halley, London: Nelson 1966
DSB 6, 67-72; DNB 8, 988-994.
Essays in Time Series and Allied Processes: papers in Honour of
E.J. Hannan, ed. J Gani and M B Priestley,
Journal of Applied Probability 23A (1986).
ESSU 1, 306-310.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DNB 9, 778.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
140 (2) (1977)
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
ESS 3, 668-669.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DNB 10, 132-133.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 6, 536-538.
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 6, 597-613.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
126 (3) (1963)
A Cook, "Sir Harold Jeffreys", Biographical Memoirs of Fellows
of the Royal Society 36 (1990), 303-333.
A N Kolmogorov and A P Yushkevich (eds), Mathematics in the
Nineteenth Century: Mathematical Logic, Algebra, Number Theory,
Probability Theory, Boston, MA: Birkhäuser 1992.
K Jordan, Chapters from the Classical Theory of Probability,
Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó 1972.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
Oscar Kempthorne (left in photo; from his personal collection)
with R.A. Fisher during a short visit to Ames, Iowa in 1952.
From p.29 in
G A Barnard, Fisher: A Retrospective, Chance 3 (1)
(1990), 22-32.
London Mathematical Society Newsletter 201
(1993 January).
Sir Maurice Kendall, Statistics: Theory and Practice,
London: Griffin 1984.
ESSU 1, 343-345.
= KHINTCHINE, Aleksandr Jakovlevich
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S Zdravkovska and P L Duren (eds), Golden Years of Moscow
Mathematics, Providence, RI: American Mathematical
Society/London Mathematical Society 1993
DSB 7, 351-352.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
152 (3) (1989)
Russian Mathematical Surveys 43 (1) (1988)
ESS Sup, 78-80.
N L Johnson and N Balakrishnan (ed.), Advances in the
Theory and Practice of Statistics: A Volume in Honor of
Samuel Kotz, Wiley 1997.
The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 (1982).
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography,
Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1991.
DSB 7, 559-573.
M Crosland, The Society of Arcueil, Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press 1967.
DSB 15, 273-403 (sic); IES 1, 493-9;
ESS 4, 469-473.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
DSB 8, 110-112.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Tables of the Complete and Incomplete Elliptic Integrals.
Reissued from Legendre's Traité des Fonctions Elliptiques,
Paris 1825, with an introduction by Karl Pearson, F.R.S.
With an autographed portrait of Legendre. Issued by the
Biometrika Office, University College London and printed by the
Cambridge University Press 1934.
A similar portrait captioned 'After a lithograph by Delpech' on
p.488 of
D E Smith, A History of Mathematics, Vol. I, Boston, MA:
Ginn 1925 and New York, NY: Dover 1958.
DSB 8, 135-143.
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 7 (1973).
ESS 4, 617-618.
S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurment of
Uncertainty Before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap (Harvard) 1986;
reproduced from
Illustrirte Zeitung (Leipzig), 143 (1914), 394.
IES 1, 507-512; ESS 4, 625-627.
The archetypal progressive: Volvo, Guardian and green
wellies.
P R Freeman and A F M Smith (ed.), Aspects of Uncertainty:
A Tribute to D V Lindley, New York: Wiley 1994.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
J Gani (ed.), The Making of Statisticians, Berlin: Springer
1982.
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem,
New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 8, 559-563; ESS 4, 625-627.
J L Folks, Ideas in Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State
University Press 1981.
IES 1, 571-576; ESS 5, 175-176.
Annals of the Royal Statistical Society 1834-1934,
London: Royal Statistical Society 1934.
DNB 9, 67-71; ESS 5, 189-190.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
W J Adams, The Life and Times of the Central Limit Theorem,
New York, NY: Kaedmon 1974.
DSB 9, 124-130; ESS 5, 247-249.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 9, 158-159; DNB 12, 1292-1294.
M Goldman, The Demon in the Aether, Edinburgh: Harris 1983.
DSB 9, 198-230; DNB 13, 118-121.
E G Forbes, The Birth of Navigational Science: Tobias Mayer,
Maritime Monographs and Reports No. 10, London: National Maritime
Museum 1974.
DSB 9, 232-235.
R Olby, Origins of Mendelism, Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press 1966.
DSB 9, 277-283.
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 9, 316-322.
Garrett Birkhoff, Gustav Kuerti and Gabor Szegö,
Studies in Mathematics and Mechanics Presented to Richard von
Mises by Friends, Colleagues and Pupils,
New York: Academic Press 1954.
DSB 9, 419-420; ESS 6, 502-505.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
153 (3) (1990)
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
143 (1) (1980)
D J Albers, G L Alexanderson and C Reid, More Mathematical
People, Boston, MA: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1990
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
149 (2) (1986)
Reminiscences of an Astronomer, London:
Harper & Bros. 1903.
DSB 10, 33-36; DAB 7, 452-455.
Early Statistical Papers, Cambridge University Press 1967.
DSB 18, 669-675; IESocSci 18 (Biog. Supp.), 587-590;
ESS 6, 215-223.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Frontispiece from
D Erskine Muir, Florence Nightingale, London: Blackie 1946
ESS 6, 246-249.
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography,
Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1991.
DSB 10, 247-252.
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= PACIOLO, Fra Luca
F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962.
DSB 10, 269-272.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
H Loeffel, Blaise Pascal, Basel: Birkhäuser 1987.
DSB 10, 330-342; ESS 6, 626-628.
E S Pearson, Selected Papers, Cambridge University Press 1966.
IESocSci 18 (Biog. Supp.), 630-632; ESS 6, 650-653.
E S Pearson, Karl Pearson: An Appreciation of some aspects of
his life and works, Cambridge University Press 1938.
DSB 10, 447-473; IES 2, 691-698; ESS 6, 653-655;
DNB (1931-1940), 681-684.
C B Boyer and U C Merzbach, A History of Mathematics
(2nd ed.), London: Wiley 1989 (1st ed. by Boyer alone, 1968).
DSB 10, 478-488; IES 2, 698-702.
The Petty-Southwood correpondence 1676-1687, edited from
the Bowood papers by the Marquis of Lansdowne, London: Constable
1928.
DSB 10, 564-565; IES 2, 702-704; DNB 15,
999-1005.
B Belhouse, Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography,
Berlin: Springer-Verlag 1991.
DSB 15, 480-490; IES 2, 704-6; ESS 7, 41-43.
I J Good, Some statistical applications of Poisson's work,
Statistical Science 1 (1986), 704-6.
DSB 15, 480-490; IES 2, 704-6; ESS 7, 41-43.
R Thomas, Richard Price: Philosopher and Apostle of Liberty,
Oxford University Press 1924; also reproduced as Plate 8, opp. p.81
in
M E Ogborn, Equitable Assurances, London: George Allen and
Unwin 1962.
DNB 16, 334-7.
H M Walker, Studies in the History of Statistical Method,
Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins 1931.
DSB 11, 236-238; IES 2, 824-834;
ESS 7, 481-483.
D H Mellor (ed.), Prospects for Pragmatism: Essays in Memory of
F.P. Ramsey, Cambridge University Press 1980.
DSB 11, 285-286.
From p.56 in
A conversation with C.R. Rao, Statistical Science, 2
(1987), 53-67.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
A Rényi, Probability Theory, Amsterdam: North-Holland
1970
DSB 18, 732-734.
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Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
C A Ronan, Galileo, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1974.
DSB 11, 405-406.
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Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
The Writings of Leonard Jimmie Savage: A Memorial Selection,
Washington, DC: American Statistical Association/ Institute of
Mathematical Statistics 1981.
IESocSci 18 (Biog. Supp.), 691-694; ESS 8, 265-267.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life,
New York: Springer-Verlag 1982
DSB 18, 783-784.
From
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
P R Masani, Norbert Wiener 1894-1964, Basel: Birkhäuser
1990.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
DSB 12, 443-445; DNB 18, 279.
J C Gower, Statistics in Agriculture, Journal of the Royal
Statistical Society Series A, 151 (1988),
179-200.
DNB 18, 301-305.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
159 (3) (1996)
J L Folks, Ideas in Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State
University Press 1981.
ESS 8, 526-528.
The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 (1982).
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science,
13 (1998), 291-305 at page 294.
J L Folks, Ideas in Statistics, Ames, IO: Iowa State
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A conversation with Charles Stein, Statistical Science
1 (1986), 454-462.
S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of
Uncertainty before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap (Harvard)
1986.
The illustration shows the arms of Stirling of Garden
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William Fraser, The Stirlings of Keir and their Family Papers,
Edinburgh: Privately Printed 1858.
DSB 13, 443-445; DNB 18, 1266-1267.
J Gani (ed.), The Craft of Probabilistic Modelling:
A Collection of Personal Accounts, Berlin: Springer 1986.
A Wykes, Doctor Cardano: Physician Extraordinary,
London: Frederick Muller 1969.
DSB 13, 258-262.
T O'Donnell, History of Life Insurance in its Formative Years,
Chicago: American Conservation Company 1936.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
New York, etc.: Wiley 1997
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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A
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A Macfarlane, Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the
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E R Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence
and Narrative, Cheshire, CO: Graphics Press 1997.
No. 133 from
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
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H D Francis, In memoriam John Venn. Privately printed,
Cambridge 1928. Reprinted from The Caian, vol. XXXI, no.3.
DSB 13, 611-613; DNB (1922-1930), 869-870.
The Mathematical Intelligencer 4 (1982).
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DSB 14, 121-123; ESS 9, 514-517.
S Stinnett et al., Women in Statistics: Sesquicentennial Activities,
American Statistician 44(2) (1990), 74-80.
A Cook, Edmond Halley: Charting the Heavens and the Seas,
Oxford: Clarendon Press 1998.
DSB 14, 146-155; DNB 20, 598-602.
Constance Reid, Neyman - from Life, New York: Springer-Verlag
1982
K Pearson, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon: A Memoir, Biometrika
5 (1906), 1-52, reprinted in E S Pearson and M G Kendall
(ed.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability,
London: Griffin 1970, pp.264-321.
DSB 14, 251-252.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
Sciences from the Seventeenth Century to the Present,
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Norbert Wiener, Selected Papers, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
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DAB Supp 7 (1961-65), 783-785.
A R Sampson and B Spencer, A conversation with I. Richard Savage,
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ESS 9, 609-612.
N L Johnson and S Kotz (ed.), Leading personalities in Statistical
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DSB 14, 381-386.
E S Pearson, John Wishart 1898-1956, Biometrika
44 (1957), 1-8.
A Lefevre-Pontalis, Jean de Witt, Grande Pensionnaire de
Hollande, Paris: Plon, Nourrit 1884.
DSB 14, 465-467, ESS Sup 47-50.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
ESSU 1 546-548.
Paul R Halmos, I Have a Photographic Memory, Providence, RI:
American Mathematical Society 1987.
DSB 18, 996-997; ESS 9, 646-650.
= JAHNSON, Yulii Eduardovich
J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist,
New York: Wiley 1978.
ESSU 1 549-551.
ABBE, Ernst 1840-1905
DSB 1, 6-9; ESS 1, 2-3.
ADRAIN, Robert 1775-1843
From p.242 in
AIRY, Sir George Biddell 1801-1892
From fig.1 in
AITKEN, Alexander Craig 1895-1967
Frontispiece from
ANDERSON, Theodore Wilbur 1915-
(left) with TUKEY, John Wilder 1915-
ANDERSON, Virgil
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science,
13 (1998), 291-305 at page 295.
ARBUTHNOT, John 1667-1735
Frontispiece from
ARMITAGE, Peter 1924-
Frontispiece from
ARNAULD, Antoine 1560-1619
Abb.4 from
BAILY, Francis 1744-1844
From p.331 of
BABBAGE, Charles 1792-1871
Charles Babbage, aged thirty-six. From a Colnaghi engraving
BARNARD, George Alfred 1915-
Frontispiece from
BARRETT, George 1752-1821
From p.334 of
BARTHOLOMEW, David J
Frontispiece from
BARTLETT, Maurice Stephenson 1910-
Frontispiece from
BAYES, Rev. Thomas 1702-1761
From p.335 of
The Bayes family vault
From p.297 in
Visitors' Map of Bunhill Fields
Showing the site of his grave. From pp.12-13 in
Ashton Lodge
Where he "probably lodged during his time in Tunbridge Wells"
BECHHOFER, Robert
(centre) with SOBEL, Milton (left) and GUPTA, Shanti (right)
BENJAMIN, Bernard 1910-
Frontispiece from
BERNOULLI, Daniel 1700-1782
Frontispiece of
BERNOULLI, James 1654-1705
James Bernoulli in 1687, from frontispiece of
Tombstone in Basel
From Fig. 11.17 in
BERNOULLI, Nicholas 1687-1759
No known portrait appears to exist.
BERNSTEIN, Sergey Natanovich 1880-1968
DSB 15, 22-24; ESS 1, 221-223.
BERTRAND, Joseph Louis François
1822-1900
From p.277 in
BESSEL, Friedrich Wilhelm 1784-1846
From fig.10, opp. p.321 in
BHARUCHA-REID, Al T
No. 479 from
BIENAYMÉ Irénée Jules
1796-1878
Frontispiece from
BLACKWELL, David 1919-
From
BODMER, Sir Walter (Fred) 1936-
Frontispiece from
BOL'SHEV, Login Nikolaevich 1922-1978
ESSU 1, 63-64.
BONFERRONI, Carlo Emilio
1892-1960
From p.225 in
BOOLE, George 1815-1864
Frontispiece from
BOLTZMANN, Ludwig 1844-1906
From p.270 in
BOREL, Émile
Félix-Edouard-Justin 1871-1956
From
BOSE, Raj Chandra 1901-1987
From p.41 in
BOSKOVIC, Rudjer Josip, S.J. 1711-1787
From frontispiece of
BOWLEY, Sir Arthur Lyon 1869-1957
Frontispiece from
BOX, George Edward Pelham 1919-
From p.240 in
BUFFON, George Louis Leclerc, Comte de 1707-1788
From p.211 of
BUNYAKOVSKII, Viktor Yakovlevich
1804-1889
From p.250 in
BURR, Irving
A conversation with Shanti Gupta, Statistical Science,
13 (1998), 291-305 at page 295.
CARCAVI, Pierre de 1600-1684
DSB 3, 63-64.
CANTELLI, Francesco Paolo 1875-1966
From p.228 in
CARDANO, Gerolamo 1501-1576
From facing p.52 in
CAUCHY, Augustin-Louis 1789-1857
Cauchy as a young academician. Half-length portrait by Boilly,
1821.
As a mature man
From p.497 in
CHEBYSHEFF, Pavnutii Lvovich 1821-1894
From facing p.70 in
CHERNOFF, Herman 1923-
From p.166 in
COCHRAN, William Gemmell 1909-1980
Frontispiece from
CONDORCET, Marquis de 1743-1794
From the cover of
CHUPROV, Alexander Alexandrovich 1874-1926
ESS 1, 477-479.
COX, Sir David (Roxbee) 1924-
Frontispiece from
COX, Gertrude Mary 1900-1978
From p.75 in
CRAMÉR, Harald 1893-1985
with RAO, Cayampudi Radhakhrishna 1920-
CUNLIFFE, Stella Vivian 1917-
Frontispiece from
D'ALEMBERT, Jean le Rond 1717-1783
From Fig. 13.8, p.201 in
DANIELS, Henry Ellis 1912-
Frontispiece from
DANTZIG, George Bernard 1914-
From p.61 in
DARMOIS, Georges
From p.166 in
DAVID, Florence Nightingale 1909-1993
F N David in her office at the Forestry Division at Berkeley,
circa 1977,
DAVIDOV, August Yulevich 1823-1885
From p.252 in
DEMING, William Edwards 1900-1993
From
DE MOIVRE, Abraham 1667-1754
Abraham De Moivre painted by Jos. Highmore, 1736
DE MORGAN, Augustus 1806-1871
From p.345 of
As drawn by a student
From p.36 of
DIACONIS, Persi 1945-
From p.320 in
DOOB, Joseph Leo 1910-
From
DURBIN, James 1923-
Frontispiece from
EBBINGHAUS, Hermann 1850-1909
From frontispiece of
EDGEWORTH, Francis Ysidro 1845-1926
From facing p.238 in
EISENHART, Churchill 1913-1994
From p.513 in
ELFVING, Gustav 1908-1984
From p.96 in
ENCKE, Johann Franz 1791-1865
Johann Encke, Director of the Berlin Observatory, from p.47 in
ENGEL, (Christian Lorenz) Ernst 1821-1896
From p.280 in
EULER, Ledonhard 1707-1783
From Fig. 9.3, p.133 in
FARR, William 1807-1883
Facing p.60 in
FECHNER, Gustav Theodor 1801-1887
Frontispiece from
FELLER, William 1906-1970
From
FERGUSON, Thomas
From p.450 of
FERMAT, Pierre de 1601-1665
Abb.45 from
de FINETTI, Bruno 1906-1985
From frontispiece of
FINLAISON, John 1783-1860
From p.298 of
FINNEY, David John 1917-
Frontispiece from
FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer 1890-1962
Photograph (supplied by Fisher Memorial Committee) by Antony
Barrington-Brown, as reproduced as frontispiece of
Portrait by Leontine Tintner
In the Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina;
frontispiece from
with KEMPTHORNE, Oscar1919-
Oscar Kempthorne (left in photo; from his personal collection)
with R.A. Fisher during a short visit to Ames, Iowa in 1952.
GALILEI, Galileo 1564-1642
Facing p.188 in
GALTON, Sir Francis 1822-1911
Francis Galton, aged 66, from Plate VIII of
GAUSS, Carl Friedrich 1777-1855
From opp. p.42 in
From 10 Deutsche Mark note (dated 2 Januar 1989)
GNEDENKO, Boris Vladimirovich 1912-1995
From p.244 in
GOMPERTZ, Benjamin 1779-1865
From p.341 of
GOOD, Irving John 1917-
From Bulletin of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
16(3) (1987), 106.
GOSSET, William Sealy 1876-1937
Frontispiece from
GOULD, Stephen Jay 1941-
Frontispiece from
GRAUNT, John 1620-1674
From p.147 of
'sGRAVESANDE, Willem Jacob 1688-1742
DSB 5, 509-511.
GUPTA, Shanti
(left) with SOBEL, Milton (right)and BECHHOFER, Robert (centre)
GUTTMAN, Louis 1916-1987
From p.112 in
HALDANE, John Burdon Sanderson 1892-1964
J B S Haldane with his second wife, Dr Helen Spurway, in June 1956.
HALLEY, Edmond 1656-1742
Edmond Halley as a naval officer, after a portrait by Sir Geoffrey
Kneller
HANNAN, Edward James 1921-1994
From frontispiece of
HARTLEY, Herman Otto 1912-1980
From p.197 in
HÁYEK, Jaroslav 1926-1974
From p.194 in
HELMERT, Friedrich Robert 1843-1917
DSB 6, 239-241; ESS 3, 605-606.
HEYSHAM, John 1753-1834
From p.363 of
HILL, Sir Austin Bradford 1897-
Frontispiece from
HODGES, Joseph L., Jr. 1922-
From
HOEFFDING, Wassily 1914-1991
From p.118 in
HOTELLING, Harold 1895-1973
From
HOYLE, Edmond 1672-1762
From p.131 of
HUDDE, Jan 1628 or 1629-1769
From p.131 of
HUYGENS, Christiaan 1625-1695
Abb.47 from
IRWIN, Joseph Oscar 1898-
Frontispiece from
JEFFREYS, Sir Harold 1891-1989
Opposite p.303. in
JEVONS, William Stanley 1835-1882
From p.21 in
JORDAN Károly 1871-1959
From the dustjacket of
KAC, Mark 1914-1985
No. 470 from
KEMPTHORNE, Oscar 1919-
with FISHER, Sir Ronald Aylmer 1890-1962
KENDALL, David George 1918-
From
KENDALL, Sir Maurice George 1907-1983
Frontispiece from
KHINCHIN, Aleksandr Yakovlevich
1894-1959
From p.39 in
KIAER, Anders Nicolai 1838-1919
ESS Sup, 78.
KIEFER, Jack Carl 1924-1981
From
KINGMAN, Sir John (Frank Charles) 1939-
Frontispiece from
KOLMOGOROV. Andrei Nikolaevich
1903-1987
Frontispiece from
KOTZ, Samuel Borisovich
1930-
Frontispiece from
KRUSKAL, Joseph B
From p.182 in
LAGRANGE, Joseph-Louis 1736-1813
From p.38 in
LANGEVIN, Paul1872-1946
DSB 8, 9-14; ESS 4, 468-469.
LAPLACE, Pierre-Simon, Marquis de
1749-1827
Laplace in his robes as Chancellor of the Senate, from Plate 6 in
LEBESGUE, Henri Léon 1875-1941
From
LE CAM, Lucien 1924-
From
LEGENDRE, Adrien Marie 1752-1833
From frontispiece of
LEHMANN, Erich Leo 1917
with his daughter Barbara
LEHRER, Thomas Andrew 1928-
No. 606 from
LÉVY, Paul 1886-1971
From opp. p.300 in
LEXIS, Wilhelm 1837-1914
From p.221 of
LINDLEY, Dennis Victor 1923-
From Fig. 1.5, opp. p.7
LINNIK, Iurii Vladimirovich1915-1972
DSB 18, 561-562, ESSU 1, 370-372.
LOÈVE, Michael 1907-1979
From
LUKACS, Eugene 1906-1987
From p.13 in
LYAPUNOV, Aleksandr Mikhailovich
1857-1918
From opp. p.94 in
MAHALANOBIS, Prasanta Chandra
1893-1972
From p.336 in
MALTHUS, Thomas Robert 1766-1834
From facing p.4 in
MANN, Henry B
No. 150 from
MARKOV, Andrei Andreevich 1856-1922
From opp. p.80 in
MASÈRES, Francis 1734-1824
From p.278 in
MAXWELL, James Clerk 1831-1909
From
MAYER, Tobias 1723-1762
Opposite contents page (and on title page) of
MENDEL, Johann Gregor 1822-1884
Mendel in 1862. Opposite p.49 in
MERSENNE, Marin 1588-1648
Abb.4 from
MISES, Richard von 1883-1953
Frontispiece from
MONTMORT, Pierre Rémond de1678-1719
DSB 9, 499-500; ESS 5, 618-620.
MOORE, Peter Gerard 1928-
Frontispiece from
MOSER, Sir Claus (Adolf) 1922-
Frontispiece from
MOSTELLER, Frederick 1916-
From p.241 in
NELDER, John Ashworth 1924-
Frontispiece from
NEWCOMB, Simon 1835-1909
Frontispiece from
NEYMAN, Jerzy (Splawa-) 1894-1981
Frontispiece from
with SCOTT, Elizabeth1917-1988
From
NIGHTINGALE, Florence 1820-1910
A portrait taken immediately after her return from the Crimea
OSTROGRADSKY, Mikhail Vasilevich
1801-1862
From p.124 in
PACIOLO, Fra Luca 1445-1509
From the painting 'Fra Luca Pacioli and Pupil' by J. de Barbari
(1440/50-1516) in the Capodimonte Museum, Naples. Reproduced on
the front cover of R Lawlor, Sacred Geometry: Philosophy and
Practice, London: Thames and Hudson 1982. Also reproduced on
p.108 of the same book and as Plate 8 (opp. p.25) of
PARZEN, Emanuel 1929-
No. 401 from
PASCAL, Blaise 1623-1662
Frontispiece from
PEARSON, Egon Sharpe 1895-1980
Frontispiece from
PEARSON, Karl 1857-1936
Frontispiece from
PEIRCE, Charles Sanders 1839-1914
From p.663 in
PETTY, Sir William 1623-1687
From a portrait by Closterman at Bowood; frontispiece of
PITMAN, Edwin James George1897-
ESS 6, 729-731.
POISSON, Siméon Denis 1781-1840
From p.52 in
Another portrait
From p.159 in
PRICE, Richard 1723-1791
From an engraving by Holloway in the National Museum of Wales
after an original painting by Sir Benjamin West now in the
possession of the Royal Society; frontispiece from
QUETELET, (Lambert) Adolphe (Jacques)
1796-1874
From facing p.40 in
RAMSEY, Frank Plumpton 1903-1930
Frontispiece from
RAO, Cayampudi Radhakrishna 1920-
with CRAMÉR, Harald
REID, Constance
No. 585 from
RÉNYI Alfréd 1921-1970
Frontispiece from
RÉVÉSZ, Paul
No. 340 from
RICCI, Ostilio 1540-1603
From p.73 in
ROBERVAL, Gilles Personne1602-1675
DSB 11, 486-491.
ROBBINS, Herbert 1915-
From
RUBIN, Herman
No. 342 from
SAVAGE, I Richard
No. 22 from
SAVAGE, Leonard Jimmie 1917-1971
From frontispiece of
SCHEFFÉ, Henry 1907-1977
From
SCOTT, Elizabeth Leonard 1917-1988
with NEYMAN, Jerzy1894-1981
SHANNON, Claude E 1916-
From p.155 in
SHEWHART, Walter A
From http://www.lucent.dk/museum/1924scc.html
SHEWHART, Walter Andrew1891-1967
DSB 18, 816-819.
SIMPSON, Thomas 1710-1761
From p.209 of
SINCLAIR, Sir John 1754-1835
Raeburn's portrait of Sir John Sinclair (National Galleries of
Scotland), opp. p.179 in
SLUTSKY, Evgeny Evgeneivich1880-1948
DSB 12, 461; ESS 8, 512-515.
SMITH, Adrian F M
Frontispiece from
SMIRNOV, Nikolai Vasil'yevich 1890-1966
ESSU 1, 500-502.
SNEDECOR, George W 1882-1974
From p.258 in
SNELL, James Laurie
From p.118 in
SOBEL, Milton
(left) with BECHHOFER, Robert (centre) and GUPTA, Shanti (right)
SPEARMAN, Charles Edward 1863-1945
From p.328 in
STEIN, Charles 1920-
Charles Stein in 1984, from p.462 in
STIGLER, Stephen M
From the dust-jacket of
STIRLING, James "The Venetian" 1692-1770
No known portrait appears to exist.
STUART, Alan 1922-1998
From p.6 in
The Independent, 1998 July 25.
TAKÁCS, Lajos 1924-
From p.139 in
TARTAGLIA, Nicolo 1506?-1559
From facing p.117 in
TETENS, Johannes Nikolaus 1736-1807
From p.330 of
THIELE, Thorvald Nicolai
1838-1910
From p.161 in
THORP, Ed O
No. 175 from
TIPPETT, Leonard Henry Caleb 1902-
Frontispiece from
TODHUNTER, Isaac 1820-1884
Detail from frontispiece of
TUFTE, Edward R
From leaflet advertising
TUKEY, John Wilder 1915-
(right) with ANDERSON, Theodore Wilbur 1918-
VENN, John 1834-1923
From frontispiece of
VILLE, Jean Andre‚ 1910-
From p.122 in
WALD, Abraham 1902-1950
From
WALKER, Helen Mary 1891-1983
From p.78 in
WALLIS, John 1616-1703
From Plate III of
WARGENTIN, Pehr Wilhelm 1717-1783
DSB 14, 178-179.
WEAVER, Warren 1894-1978
From
WELDON, Walter Frank Raphael 1860-1906
From p.264 of
WESTERGAARD, Harald Ludvig
1853-1936
From p.319 in
WIENER, Norbert 1894-1964
Frontispiece from
WILCOXON, Frank 1892-1965
From p. 136 in
WILKS, Samuel Stanley 1906-1964
From p.211 in
WILSON, Edwin Biddell 1879-1964
DSB 14, 436-438, ESSU 1, 545-546
WISHART, John 1898-1956
From opp. p.1 in
De WITT, Jan 1625-1672
Frontispiece from
WOLD, Herman Ole Andreas 1908-1992
No. 126 from
WOLFOWITZ, Jacob 1910-1981
No. 402 from
YANSON, Yulii Eduardovich 1835-1892
ESS 9, 658-659.
YASTREMSKII, Boris Sergeyevich 1877-1962
ESS 9, 659.
YATES, Frank 1902-1994
Plate 23 from
YULE, George Udny 1871-
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