M. K. Venkatesha Murthy,Mathematician and Hindu

The human and scientific personality of M. K. Venkatesha Murthy is illustrated and his great spirit of cooperation and solidarity is highlighted.     

Counterexamples to results of M.M. Rao

Summary Orlicz spaces and Prediction Operators in these spaces have been investigated by M.M. Rao in a number of well known papers. Since these papers are widely recognized as pioneering work in this field, it seems worth while to point out that some of his main results and many of his proofs are false. In particular M.M. Rao's result on strict convexity of Orlicz spaces and his proofs of convergence theorems for prediction sequences are false.     

Stanley's Simplicial Poset Conjecture,After M. Masuda

ABSTRACT

M. Masuda recently provided the missing piece proving a conjecture of R.P. Stanley on the characterization of f-vectors for Gorenstein? simplicial posets. We propose a slight simplification of Masuda's proof.