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2 unusual facts about Richard von Mises


Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics

The journal's first issue appeared in 1921, published by the Verein Deutscher Ingenieure and edited by Richard von Mises.

Richard von Mises

Richard von Mises, Philipp Frank, Heinrich Weber, Bernhard Riemann, Die Differential- und Integralgleichungen der Mechanik und Physik, 1925, 1930.


Andrew Vázsonyi

He spent a year at a Quaker workshop at Haverford, Pennsylvania, and in 1941 began graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Harvard University, studying there under Richard von Mises with the support of a Gordon McKay Fellowship.

Annals of Mathematical Statistics

In 1938, Samuel Wilks became editor-in-chief of the Annals and recruited a remarkable editorial staff: Fisher, Neyman, Cramér, Hotelling, Egon Pearson, Georges Darmois, Allen T. Craig, Deming, von Mises, H. L. Rietz, and Shewhart.


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