Symposium on Mathematical Statistics

Abstract

A FRENCH writer has recently remarked that whereas the twelfth and thirteenth centuries saw the creation of the first universities and the sixteenth and seventeenth the first academies, it was not until the nineteenth that the international congress made its appearance as a serious instrument for the advancement of science. He might perhaps have added that the twentieth century is evolving another method of synthesizing scientific thought, the symposium, in which a number of workers come together to discuss a single scientific theme from various points of view. It is an interesting, perhaps an inevitable, development from the solo towards the orchestral attack in science which might itself form the subject of scientific discussion.

Proceedings of the Berkeley Symposium on Mathematical Statistics and Probability

Held at the Statistical Laboratory, Department of Mathematics, University of California, August 13–18, 1945, January 27–28, 1946. Edited by Jerzy Neyman. Pp. viii+501. (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press; London: Cambridge University Press, 1949.) 42s. net.