The Origins of the Word “Martingale”
This short note reviews and details various senses of the word “martingale,” with their respective etymologies, in mathematics, gambling, technology, and vernacular language.
A Conversation with Joe Doob
Joseph L. Doob was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, February 27, 1910. He received the degrees A.B. in 1930, A.M. in 1931 and Ph.D. in 1932 from Harvard University. From 1932 to 1934 Doob did postdoctoral work at Columbia University. In 1933-1934 he held a Carnegie Corpo- ration Fellowship. Doob was a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois from 1935 until his retirement in 1978. He was Commissar of the Champaign-Urbana Saturday Hike for about 25 years after World War II. Doob is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and Foreign Associate of the Academy of Sciences, France. He was President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1950 and of the American Math- ematical Society in 1963 and 1964. He received the National Medal of Science in 1979. In 1984 Doob was awarded the Career Prize by the American Mathematical Society for "his fundamental work in establish- ing probability as a branch of mathematics and for his continuing pro- found influence on its development."
Persius and the Programmatic Satire: A Study in Form and Imagery
Introduction 1. Style and expression in Persius' fifth satire 2. The programmatic satire and the method of Persius I 3. The nature and sources of Persius' imagery 4. Persius' first satire: analysis 5. Grandeur and humility: Juvenal and the high style Appendixes Text Translation Index of modern authors Index locorum potiorum Index of images, topics and words.