Collected Works of Wassily Hoeffding

It has been a rare privilege to assemble this volume of Wassily Hoeffding''s Collected Works. Wassily was, variously, a teacher, supervisor and colleague to us, and his work has had a profound influence on our own. Yet this would not be sufficient reason to publish his collected works. The additional and overwhelmingly compelling justification comes from the fun­ damental nature of his contributio...