References for Richard von Mises
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- N T Gridgeman, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830902986.html
- Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica.
http://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-von-Mises
Books:
- H Geiringer (ed.), Mathematical Theory of Probability and Statistics (New York, 1964).
- Studies in mathematics and mechanics : Presented to Richard von Mises by Friends, Colleagues and Pupils (New York, 1954).
Articles:
- A Basch, Richard von Mises zum 70, Geburtstag, Osterreich. Ing.-Arch. 7 (1953), 73-76.
- H Bernhardt, Zum Leben und Wirken des Mathematikers Richard von Mises, NTM Schr. Geschichte Natur. Tech. Medizin 16 (2) (1979), 40-49.
- G Birkhoff, Richard von Mises' years at Harvard, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 63 (7) (1983), 283-284.
- L Collatz, Richard von Mises als numerischer Mathematiker, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 63 (7) (1983), 278-280.
- H Cramér, Richard von Mises' work in probability and statistics, Ann. Math. Statistics 24 (1953), 657-662.
- H Föllmer and K Küchler, Richard von Mises, in Mathematics in Berlin (Berlin, 1998), 55-60.
- J Förste, Zum 100: Geburtstag von Richard von Mises, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 63 (7) (1983), 277.
- P Frank, The work of Richard von Mises: 1883-1953, Science 119 (1954), 823-824.
- G S S Ludford, Mechanics in the applied- mathematical world of von Mises, Z. Angew. Math. Mech. 63 (7) (1983), 281-282.
- R Sauer, Nachruf : Richard von Mises, Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Jbuch. 1953 (1953), 194-197.
- R Sauer, Richard von Mises 19. 4. 1883 - 14. 7. 1953 (German), Bayer. Akad. Wiss. Jbuch. 1953 (1953), 194-197
- R Siegmund-Schultze, Hilda Geiringer von Mises, Charlier Series, Ideology, and the human side of the emancipation of applied mathematics at the University of Berlin during the 1920s, Historia Mathematica 20 (1993), 364-381.
- A Szafarz, Richard von Mises : l'échec d'une axiomatique, Dialectica 38 (4) (1984), 311-317.
- M van Lambalgen, Randomness and foundations of probability : von Mises' axiomatisation of random sequences, in Statistics, probability and game theory (Hayward, CA, 1996), 347-367.
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