The Revolutionary Martyrdom of Jonathan Robbins

Martyrs, Martyrdom, and the Comedia

The Robbins Equation

Researchers have long been interested in nding simple axiomatizations of theories, including Boolean algebra. Boolean algebra can be axiomatized in many diierent ways using various sets of operations. The ordinary operations of Boolean algebra are disjunction (+), conjunction (), negation (0), zero (0), and one (1). One of the rst simple axiomatizations was presented by E. V. (Associativity) ((...

Jane Robbins

Australian social policy has embraced what have loosely been termed " Third Way " initiatives over the last few years. The Howard government has announced a tripartate " Social Coalition " of government, business and community sectors as its chosen model for addressing social disadvantage and exclusion. " Mutual obligation " , " social entrepreneurialsm " , " partnerships " and " capacity build...

On a Problem of Robbins

Robbins’s visionary 1951 paper can be seen as an exercise in binary classification, but also as a precursor to the outpouring of recent work on high-dimensional data analysis and multiple testing. It can also be seen as the birth of empirical Bayes methods. Our objective in the present note is to use this problem and several variants of it to provide a glimpse into the evolution of empirical Ba...

In search of Robbins stability

We speculate on whether a certain p-adic stability phenomenon, observed by David Robbins empirically for Dodgson condensation, appears in other nonlinear recurrence relations that “unexpectedly” produce integer or nearly-integer sequences. We exhibit an example (number friezes) where this phenomenon provably occurs. This note may be viewed as an addendum to Robbins’s note [5] in this volume. It...