----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- Thanks to Mike Lynch for clarifying this. The dates I gave for E.B. Wilson is wrong. There are actually THREE E.B. Wilsons: Edwin Bidwell Wilson, 1879-1964 - the statistician/mathematician Edgar Bright Wilson, 1908-1992 - the physicist/chemist Edmund Beecher Wilson, 1856-1939 - the zoologist/biologist E.B. Wilson must be such a lucky name! In his "Stabilizing Dynamics", Weintraub (1991) doesn't actually spell out E.B. Wilson's name (nor does Samuelson for that matter), but, in a footnote, Weintraub claims he is basing his account on a 1973 biographical memoir entitled "Edwin Bidell Wilson". So there we have it. The full dates of Edwin Bidell Wilson are 25 April 1879 - 28 December 1964. Goncalo ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]