Professor Lehmann has known many remarkable statisticians and
mathematicians. This book is an autobiographical account of his
encounters, following the steps of his own career. Taken together, these
sketches provide a very personal picture of the development of
statistical theory from the 1930's to the 1970's. It is the period
between two revolutions: that of Fisher, Neyman and Pearson, which laid
the foundations for the classical statistical theory of that period; and
the second revolution, forty years later, brought about by the advent of
the computer, which turned statistics in new directions.