New Statistics (& some clearly not Statistics)

Domain-Specific Modeling
Multiscale Methods (Pavliotis)
Stochastic Control of Hereditary Systems and Applications
Statistics (4th ed., Freedman)
Language of Mathematics (Barton)
Using SPSS (oops, that was in the photo 2 wks ago...)









Intro to Time Series Analysis and Forecasting (Montgomery)
The EM Algorithm and Extensions (2nd ed. McLachlan)
Comparative Risk Assessment (Schutz)
Probability Theory: A Comprehensive Course (Klenke)
A Handbook of Statistical Analyses Using R (Everitt)
Statistics for People Who (think they) Hate Statistics (Salkind)

Free, Fair Trade Adelante Coffee

It's dead week here in Bloomington, but come alive in Swain Hall Library with a cup of organic coffee as you prepare for exams and finish your term papers. "...our coffee has a light aroma, with vanilla accents and a sweet, bold entrance that introduces weighty body and a profile that is as unique as the name." [see the Equal Exchange page]
But wait, how can we possibly give away coffee? It reminds me of the debate over the Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access Publishing in Particle Physics (SCOAP3); some libraries and laboratories are reluctant to get involved with this because, they claim, it's an untested and possibly unsustainable business model.
It seems to me what's unsustainable is the old publishing business model where scholars turn over their intellectual property (in the form of research papers) to for-profit businesses (i.e. the large science publishers). Then the scholars and their institutions have to buy back access to the published paper in the form of journal subscriptions. Prices for many of these journals went completely out of control in the 1990s. That's why we have the current serials crisis. SCOAP3 is trying to address this problem.
Anyway...back to coffee. Adelante...Spanish for "Onward and Upward".

New Swain Statistics, 4/14/08

SPSS for Dummies
Introduction to Bayesian Scientific Computing

Mathematical Modeling, Simulation, Visualization and e-Learning (not so much about statistics, but thought it was interesting)

Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh

Introduction to Empirical Processes and Semiparametric Inference

Limit Theorems for Associated Random Fields and Related Systems

Roger Temam Elected to the Academie des sciences

In 2007, 11 new members were elected to the over 300 year old French Academy of Sciences, including Indiana University mathematician Roger Temam. At last weekend's regional American Mathematical Society conference held here in Bloomington, several partial differential equation people gathered at Shouhong Wang and Ping Lin's house Saturday night. They have a huge kitchen by the way, and pretty much everyone could sit and visit in that one room. One after one, people made toasts to Roger and offered stories, good humor, and admiration. Another achievement mentioned by David Hoff of which I was unaware is the sheer number of PhDs Temam has overseen: as of this semester, he's directed 101. It is almost unheard of for any mathematician to have this many decendants. Browse the genealogy of mathematics and you'll see what I mean. Here's Roger visiting with Purdue mathematician Min Chen. Congratulations Roger Temam!

Focus on Gödel's "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica"

In 1931, Kurt Gödel published this ground-breaking article in Monatshefte für Mathematik und Physik. Since then it has been translated into several languages and published in book format, reprinted, and reinterpreted . It has been digitized and copies of it are scattered across the globe in libraries and studies of mathematicians, logicians, and philosophers.


Over 40 years ago Indiana University logician and Gandalf look-alike Raymond Smullyan offered a brief review of the 1962 English translation in the American Mathematical Monthly (translated by B. Meltzer, with an introduction by R.B. Braithwaite). At that time Smullyan was at Yeshiva University.

In 1963 the Times Literary Supplement reviewed Gödel's work and it is pasted here (unfortunately with a JSTOR resolution that could not be improved upon). Click on the article to zoom in.


The Journal of Symbolic Logic also published a detailed review by Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Sep., 1965), pp. 359-362.

One of the most detailed reviews can be found in The Review of Modern Logic, 1997, by Bernd Buldt, v. 7 (1), pp. 90-99. (available to IU through Cornell's Project Euclid).


Special thanks to Jeff Graf (Indiana University, Wells Library, Reference Librarian) for his help tracking down these reviews.