Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Yale University Press
e druk, 2012
9780300188226
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
Specificaties
Paperback, 360 blz.
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EN
Yale University Press |
e druk, 2012
ISBN13: 9780300188226
Rubricering
Levertijd ongeveer 7 werkdagen
Samenvatting
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.