Sir Martin Gilbert

Sir Martin Roth FRS: an appreciation.

Since the mid-19th century central Europe had been the cradle of conceptual thinking had been the cradle of conceptual thinking in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbu-in clinical psychiatry. Following the turbulence and persecution in the 1920s and lence and persecution in the 1920s and 1930s some of a later generation of mid-1930s some of a later generation of mid-European psychiatrists e...

Inspector-General Sir James Ranald Martin, C.B., F.R.S.

Algebra Notes: Gilbert&Gilbert

Sets and Intervals • An interval with round brackets such as (a, b) means all the numbers between a and b not including a and b. We call this interval an open interval. • An interval with square brackets such as [a, b] means all the numbers between a and b including a and b. We call this interval a closed interval. • An interval with one square bracket and one closed bracket is called a clopen ...

Sir Gilbert Walker and a Connection between El Niño and Statistics

The eponym “Walker Circulation” refers to a concept used by atmospheric scientists and oceanographers in providing a physical explanation for the El Niño–Southern Oscillation phenomenon, whereas the eponym “Yule–Walker equations” refers to properties satisfied by the autocorrelations of an autoregressive process. But how many statisticians (or, for that matter, atmospheric scientists) are aware...

The Health of Seamen, Selections from the Works of Dr. James Lind, Sir Gilbert Blane and Dr. Thomas Trotter

in his observations of pathology as in any other aspect of the anatomy of human or animal organs. It is natural that those producing this book should be enthusiastic about the great achievements of Leonardo da Vinci. This has been expressed by presenting him in the guise of a modern anatomist and physiologist. Inclusion of a section on endocrinology however overstresses the point. Of endocrinol...