A Report from Jack Wills

Dispensing with Wills' Act Formalities for Substantively Valid Wills

From Jack to Double Jack Polynomials via the Supersymmetric Bridge

The Calogero–Sutherland model occurs in a large number of physical contexts, either directly or via its eigenfunctions, the Jack polynomials. The supersymmetric counterpart of this model, although much less ubiquitous, has an equally rich structure. In particular, its eigenfunctions, the Jack superpolynomials, appear to share the very same remarkable combinatorial and structural properties as t...

Pious Bequests in Wills: a Statistical Analysis

This paper employs maximum likelihood methods to analyze the increase in pious bequests in early modern French wills. Other historians have described the rise of pious bequests in wills, but no one has used multivariate statistical methods to explain the phenomenon. It turns out that at any level of wealth pious bequests rose over the course of the seventeenth century and that the bequests. wer...

Living wills and religious communities.

The House That Wills' Built

A discussion of the contribution made by David Wills to the residential care of young people prompted by his book on the Reynolds House experiment.