Space, Structure and Randomness : Contributions in Honor of Georges Matheron in the Fields of Geostatistics, Random Sets, and Mathematical Morphology (Lecture Notes in Statistics Vol.183) (2005. XIV, 402 p. w. 121 figs)

GM always considered that the distinction between the theory and practice was purely academic.When GM tackled practical problems, he used his skill as a physicist to extract the salient features and to select variables which could be measured meaningfully and whose values could be estimated from the available data.