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Albert Cohen , Wolfgang Dahmen , and Ronald Devore

We develop and analyze wavelet based adaptive schemes for nonlinear variational problems. We derive estimates for convergence rates and corresponding work counts that turn out to be asymptotically optimal. Our approach is based on a new paradigm that has been put forward recently for a class of linear problems. The original problem is transformed first into an equivalent one which is well posed...

Ronald Aylmer Fisher 1890 - 1962

RONALD AYLMER FISHER was born on 17 February 1890, in East Finchley. He and his twin brother, who died in infancy, were the youngest of eight children. His father, George Fisher, was a member of the well-known firm of auctioneers, Robinson and Fisher, of King Street, St James's, London. His father's family were mostly business men, but an uncle, a younger brother of his father, was placed high ...

Sir Ronald A. Fisher and the International Biometric Society.

The year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sir Ronald A. Fisher, one of the two Fathers of Statistics and a Founder of the International Biometric Society (the "Society"). To celebrate the extraordinary genius of Fisher and the far-sighted vision of Fisher and Chester Bliss in organizing and promoting the formation of the Society, this article looks at the origins and growth of th...