Mcgrayne Sharon Bertsch

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

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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Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: 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
Author(s): Mcgrayne Sharon Bertsch
Publisher: Yale University Press
Barcode: 9780300188226
Pages: 360 Pages
Publication Date: 9/25/2012
Category: History Of Mathematics
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