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

This paper characterizes optimal service policies in terms of the frequency and timing of services which are intended to maintain a stock of assets. The model is non-stochastic. The results are ...

December 29, 1731. Brook Taylor died.—Educated at Cambridge and a man of means, Taylor was devoted to the arts and sciences, served as secretary to the Royal Society, and in 1715 published his ...

December 8, 1864. George Boole died.—While professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork, Boole published his “Differential Equations” and his “Calculus of Finite Differences,” in both of which he ...