My PhD supervisor

"Basically, I am not interested in research. I am interested in understanding, which is different." David Harold Blackwell


President of Yale and Commissioner of Baseball

"To the Members of the University Community: In order to restore what Milton called the ruin of our grand parents, I wish to announce that henceforth, as a matter of University policy, evil is abolished and paradise is restored. I trust all of us will do whatever possible to achieve this policy objective." Bart Giamatti


Philosopher and Logician

6.21 A proposition of mathematics does not express a thought. ... 6.211... Indeed in real life a mathematical proposition is never what we want. Ludwig Wittgenstein


Former Chief Statistician of Canada

Every statistician on this planet would answer the question the same way. Munir Sheikh


Me, channelling Lewis Carroll

`When I use a [symbol], it means just what I choose it to mean, nei- ther more nor less.' Dumpty, H. (1871)


Me

I am, I think, a mathematician in approach. I do research in goodness-of-fit with Michael Stephens, students and other colleagues. I do large sample theory, some inference in stochastic process and some other things mostly one off with various people. I have done stuff with Peter Borwein helping out with some number theory problems, I guess you might call them.