Book Review: Foundations of infinitesimal stochastic analysis

BOOK REVIEW The Foundations of Physical Law

Many physicists enter the profession because, often as children, they felt a burning curiosity about the world. They wanted to know why material objects behave as they do, what they are made of, and where everything came from. So they were drawn inexorably towards physics, the most basic science, as the the best place to seek answers. They will have found, however, that the answers only go just...

Book review Foundations of phylogenetic systematics

‘‘Foundations of Phylogenetic Systematics’’ (FPS), Johann-Wolfgang Wägele’s updated translation of an earlier German version (Wägele, 2001), has several unifying objectives, namely ‘‘to present a comparison and synthesis of the methodological procedure of Hennigian phylogenetic systematics with new numerical methods, to depict what these methods have in common and where they differ, and to sear...

Book Review: Ensemble Methods: Foundations and Algorithms

Erving Goffman, one of the most influential sociologists of the last century published the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (PSEL;1959). This is the most definitive 20th century study of the patterns of human behavior in mundane social situations. If we look to psychology, sociology, anthropology, marketing or even organisational studies the representation of human behavior emerges from ri...

Book Review: Stochastic Modeling: Theory and Reality

For decades, actuaries have historically used statistical and financial models that were inherently considered deterministic in the sense that random fluctuations are often ignored, although some type of sensitivity of the parameter and model assumptions have been employed to have a sense of the possible variation in the results. Today, such sensitivity analysis is unacceptably appropriate when...

An Infinitesimal Approach to Stochastic Analysis on Abstract Wiener Spaces