Teaching of economical statistics (1885–1925). Presentation of some documents. (Enseignement de la statistique économique (1885–1925). Présentation de quelques documents.)
The apparition of risk in the western mediterranean area, 12th–13th century. (L'apparition du resicum en méditerranée occidentale, XIIe – XIIIe siècles.)
The biological stimulus to multidimensional data analysis.
The clandestine opinion polls in the occupied France. (Les sondages d'opinon clandestins dans la France occupée.)
The conception of socialist calculus: statistics in the USSR within the thirties. (Former au calcul socialiste: statistiques en URSS des années 1930.)
The division problem gets going: more and more. (Le problème des partis bouge: de plus en plus.)
The education of Jean André Ville.
The emergence of french probabilistic statistics. Borel and the Institut Henri Poincaré around the 1920s
This paper concerns the emergence of modern mathematical statistics in France after the First World War. Emile Borel’s achievements are presented, and especially his creation of two institutions where mathematical statistics was developed: the Statistical Institute of Paris University, (ISUP) in 1922 and above all the Henri Poincaré Institute (IHP) in 1928. At the IHP, a new journal Annales de l’Institut Henri Poincaré was created in 1931. We discuss the first papers in that journal dealing with...
The Japanese contributions to martingale theory.
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 missing early history of contingency tables
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 origins of calculus of probability (1907). (Les origines du calcul des probabilités (1907).)
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 political arithmetic in Germany in the beginning of the 19th century: reception and polemics. (L'arithmétique politique en Allemagne au début du XIXe siècle: réceptions et polémiques.)
The price for risk-taking: marine insurance and probability calculus in the late Middle Ages.
The problem of points before Pascal. (Le problème des partis avant Pascal.)
The problem of Waldegrave.