Cover of Sharon Bertsch McGrayne: The Theory That Would Not Die

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne The Theory That Would Not Die

How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy

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Yale Univ Press

USA

2012

Paperback

336

Heavy

306055

978-0-300-18822-6

0-300-18822-6

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Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, this book offers an account of Bayes' rule for general readers, It traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into roughly its modern form by French scientist Pierre Simon Laplace.

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