A Non-Central Functional Limit Theorem for Quadratic Forms in Martingale Difference Sequences
Tomasz Franciszek Schreiber, a young Polish mathematician, passed away on December 1, 2010. Since 2009 he was a professor at the Department of Probability Theory and Stochastic Analysis at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) in Toruń.
Prof. Maksymilian Dryja, Chairman of the Commission of Applied Mathematics (CAM) of the Committee of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences (CM PAS), turned to me with a request to write the afterword to come, that I had two years ago, during the XXXIX Conference on Applied Mathematics, and which was published in Applied Mathematics, vol. 12/53, 2011, 55-58 (with some changes, not necessarily for the better).I recall that I performed with several theses on the positions occupied by the broad application...
The article discusses pictures of Mathematical Science which seem to exist in the Polish society, in society of Polish scientists and inside of the society of Polish mathematicians. It is emphasized that applications of mathematics (including stochastics) do not receive enough attention and support. Some steps towards change of this situation are proposed.
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