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Leslie Thomas Morton 1907–2004

Obituary LESLIE THOMAS MORTON 1907±2004 Leslie Morton, who died on 17 February at the age of ninety-six, had a distinguished career as a medical librarian, but was known to the world of medical history and bibliography as compiler of the indispensable reference work`Garrison-Morton'. Several of his friends spent time as juniors at the Wellcome Library. Leslie turned down a post there in 1930, b...

Morton and Stern

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The Dalang–morton–willinger Theorem

Roughly speaking, the Dalang–Morton–Willinger theorem states that for a finite sequence of price vectors (S0, S1, . . . , ST ) in R , the no-arbitrage condition implies the existence of an equivalent martingale measure. Different proofs exist [1], [3], [5], [6], [7], and even [2]. Rogers’ original proof is extremely elegant but it uses the existence of regular conditional distributions, the ori...

Evolvability LESLIE

Living organisms function in accordance with complex mechanisms that operate in different ways depending on conditions. Darwin’s theory of evolution suggests that such mechanisms evolved through variation guided by natural selection. However, there has existed no theory that would explain quantitatively which mechanisms can so evolve in realistic population sizes within realistic time periods, ...

Leslie Matthews