Braveheart Scottish political landscape in the mid to late 1990s. In 1997, a 12-ton sandstone statue depicting Mel Gibson as William Wallace in "Braveheart" was placed in the car park of the Wallace Monument near Stirling, Scotland. The statue, which was the work of Tom Church, a monumental mason from Brechin, included the word "Braveheart" on Wallace's shield. The installation became the cause of much controversy; one local resident stated that it was wrong to "desecrate the main memorial to Wallace with a lump of crap". In 1998, someone wielding a hammer vandalized the statue's face. After repairs were made, the
Stirling transform Stirling transform In combinatorial mathematics, the Stirling transform of a sequence { "a" : "n" = 1, 2, 3, ... } of numbers is the sequence { "b" : "n" = 1, 2, 3, ... } given by where formula_2 is the Stirling number of the second kind, also denoted "S"("n","k") (with a capital "S"), which is the number of partitions of a set of size "n" into "k" parts. The inverse transform is where "s"("n","k") (with a lower-case "s") is a Stirling number of the first kind. Berstein and Sloane (cited below) state "If "a" is the number of