Complex sentence: Basu met Ronald A. Fisher in the winter of 1954-1955; he wrote in 1988, With his reference set argument, Sir Ronald was trying to find a via media between the two poles of Statistics ---Berkeley and Bayes.
Split into simpler sentences: Basu met Ronald A. Fisher in the winter of 1954-1955. Basu wrote in 1988, With his reference set argument, Sir Ronald was trying to find a via media between the two poles of Statistics ---Berkeley and Bayes.