Ludwig Medicus

Cited in Index Medicus

Annus Medicus

surgery, which attracted a considerable amount of attention,?and which have been freely quoted in the lay press and in the medical journals of Europe and America. To our numerous contributors, we beg to offer our sincere thanks. The following subjects have been very frequently dealt with during the past year:?On malaria, we published quite a remarkable number of admirable papers on mosquitos an...

Rereading Ludwig Boltzmann

Ludwig Boltzmann is one of the first physicists who brought probability and statistical considerations into physics. Particularly famous is his statistical explanation of the second law of thermodynamics. However, Boltzmann’s ideas on the relationship between the thermodynamical properties of macroscopic bodies and their microscopic mechanical constitution, and the role of probability in this r...

Ludwig - Maximilians - Universität München

In this work we recall and discuss optimality criteria for decision making under uncertainty with respect to different assumptions concerning the structure of the information available. First, an overview of the basic concepts of classical decision theory is given. Here, particular emphasis is placed on explaining classical decision criteria (i.e. criteria for the case that the uncertainty can ...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich

This article summarizes the status of the Tevatron Run II searches for lepto-quarks in p¯ p collisions at √ s = 1.96 TeV. The analyses discussed use datasets with integrated luminosities ranging from 72 pb −1 to 200 pb −1 .