The life and work of Bohuslav Balcar (1943--2017)
The life and work of Zbyněk Šidák (1933–1999)
Zbyněk Šidák, the chief editor of the Applications of Mathematics, an outstanding Czech statistician and probabilist, died on November 12, 1999, aged 66 years. This article is devoted to memory of him and outlines his life and scientific work.
The logic of probable from Jakob Bernoulli to J.-H. Lambert. (Logique du probable de Jacques Bernoulli à J.-H. Lambert.)
The Logogryph of Euler.
The Lvov years of Wacław Sierpiński
An account is given of Sierpiński's activity in Lvov (1908-1918) interrupted by World War I.
The many formulae for the number of Latin rectangles.
The Mathematical Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic celebrates its 50th anniversary
The mathematical work of Pedro Berrizbeitia.
The mathematician Hugo Ribeiro.
The missing early history of contingency tables
The Moore of the Moore-Penrose inverse.
The notion of randomness from Aristotle to Poincaré
Aristotle and even earlier scientist and philosophers attempted to define, or at least to through light upon randomness. The author sketches the attempts to direct concept of randomness into the realm of mathematical science from Aristotle up to Poincaré. He dwells on the various interpretations of randomness that were pronounced in natural science and philosophy, and on the interrelation between necessity and randomness.
The Number-System of Algebra [Book]
The number-theoretic work of Paul Turán
The origins of calculus of probability (1907). (Les origines du calcul des probabilités (1907).)
The origins of the concept of dimension
The origins of the word “martingale”.
The picture of statistics within several treatises. (Les images de la statistique à travers ses traités.)
The piece number 32: presentation of sizes by figures. §§885–902 from the 4th part. “The size” of architecture. (Zwey und dreyßigstus Hauptstück: Vorstellung der Grössen durch Figuren. §§885–902 vom 4. Theil “Die Grösse” der Architectonic (1765).)
The place of instruction in Quetelet's life and work. (La place de l'enseignement dans la vie et l'œuvre de Quetelet.)