Nigel Kalton was one of the greatest mathematicians of the last 40 years, although he did his best to conceal this fact. An outsider wouldn’t recognise the mathematical giant that he was in this modest person who was always friendly and good-humoured and who was more than willing to share his ideas with everyone. Nigel published more than 260 papers (including several books) not only in Banach ...

gratefully acknowledged. The paper has benefited from the comments of an anonymous referee and from Bernard Comrie, and we are grateful to both. We would also like to thank Nigel Woodger for his technical support in creating the figures. An earlier version of the paper was given at Progress in Colour Studies 2004, University of Glasgow.

Metabolism of Anticancer Drugs: a Rapid and Specific Enzyme Immunoassay for Methotrexate NIGEL G. L. HARDING and A N N E P. SIMMONDS Department of Pathological Biochemistry, Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 OSF, Scotland, U. K. and GEORGE F. SHANKS Central Institute of Technology, Wellington, New Zealand and JOHN M. WHITELEY Department of Biochemistry, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Joll...

Henrik Sandberg, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Nigel J. Newton, and Sanjoy K. Mitter Automatic Control Lab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden ICTEAM and CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex, Colchester, UK Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT, Cambridge, Massachuse...

The mechanisms by which some animals are able to achieve astonishing feats of migration have often eluded researchers because of the difficulty of designing suitable experiments. Two Canadian researchers believe they now have a set-up to throw light on the flight of the monarch butterfly. Nigel Williams reports.

Practicalities of using an adaptive design for decision making within the optima trial: optimal personalized treatment of early breast cancer using multi-parameter tests Janet Dunn, Andrea Marshall, Amy Campbell, David Cameron, Helena Earl, Iain Macpherson, Christopher Poole, Daniel Rea, Adele Francis, Victoria Harmer, Adrienne Morgan, Nigel Stallard, Andreas Makris, Luke Hughes-Davies, Robert ...