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Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

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1) Nobel Prize women in science: their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries

Author

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

Language

English

Appears on list

Women's History Month

Formats

Book, eBook

2) 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

McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

Description

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"Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the first-ever account of Bayes' rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it. She...