THE first edition of this work, which is intended for students preparing for the first examination of the Institute of Actuaries, appeared in 1902. The present edition only differs from its ...

THE last edition of Boole's “Finite Differences” appeared in 1880, and was in fact a reprint of the edition of 1872. The interval of sixty years has seen in the elementary field Sheppard's ...

Biometrika is primarily a journal of statistics in which emphasis is placed on papers containing original theoretical contributions of direct or potential value in applications. From time to time, ...

"This book, a result of nineteen years' lectures on the calculus of finite differences, probability, and mathematical statistics in the Budapest University of Technical and Economical Sciences ... has ...

This paper is devoted to a general theory of approximation of functions in finite-element spaces. In particular, the case is considered where the functions to be interpolated are on the one hand not ...