Professor Jerzy Neyman – Some Reflections

Some Comments on Professor

In a recent issue, this journal published an article by Professor Robert S. Summers reviewing and commenting critically upon a recent book by Professor H. L. A. Hart of Oxford entitled The Concept of Law. Among other things, Professor Summers criticized Professor Hart for stressing rules to the neglect of other elements of a legal system and for succumbing to reductionist tendencies in the anal...

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In this paper, we investigate the impact of mobility on the performance of multi-hop wireless ad hoc and sensor networks. We introduced some models of mobility in these networks and studied their behavior in realistic situations. It concerns the basic relationship between link length and message transmission. Additionally, we take into consideration the probability of successful transmission in...

Professional education: Some reflections

It was a courageous decision to found a journal in the early 1980’s; and it was nothing less than a leap of faith to name a journal: Education for Information. The times were not auspicious: people were becoming less certain as to what ‘Education’ was; and it was often said of ‘Information’ that it told one more about the user of the term than it did about its intended objective correlative. Li...

An insight into the life of Michel Loève through his correspondences with Paul Lévy , Maurice Fréchet and Jerzy Neyman

In this paper, we look at the post World War II immigration and journey of a famous mathematician to the United States. Michel Loève, originally from Palestine, was a probabilist who studied mathematics at the Université de Paris under Paul Lévy. He ended his carrier in the Department of Statistics at Berkeley, with many other foreign mathematicians. Before and after his departure from France, ...