The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of C by Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of C

Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

335 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science informative slow-paced
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"This account of how a once reviled theory, Baye’s rule, came to underpin modern life is both approachable and engrossing" (Sunday Times). Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objectiv...

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