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

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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

4.0

adventurous informative slow-paced

As someone without any grasp of the maths involved at all, I enjoyed this book as an historical overview. To even attempt to write a 'popsci' book on this subject was ambitious, and I think McGrayne came as close as could be expected to pulling it off - even if the accusations of shallowness and oversimplification mentioned by other readers seem valid even to a layperson like me.