Book ID: CBB001231898

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 (2011)

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McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (Author)


Yale University Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: xiii + 320 pp.; bibl.; index
Language: English

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Authors & Contributors
Stamhuis, Ida H.
Roldán Casas, José Ángel
Zabell, Sandy L.
Xu, Chuansheng
Weatherson, Brian
Todhunter, Isaac
Journals
Statistical Science
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Llull: Revista de la Sociedad Española de Historia de las Ciencias y de las Técnicas
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Aksant Academic Publishers
Thoemmes Press
Springer-Verlag
F. Steiner
Brepols
Concepts
Mathematics
Probability and statistics
Bayes theorem
Philosophy of science
Algorithms
Science and government
People
Laplace, Pierre Simon
Bayes, Thomas
Pascal, Blaise
Bernoulli, Jakob
Stigler, Stephen M.
Ramsey, Frank Plumpton
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
France
Netherlands
Institutions
École Polytechnique, Paris
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