An edition of The Theory That Would Not Die (2011)

La teoria che non voleva morire

Come la formula di Bayes ha decifrato il codice Enigma, ha dato la caccia ai sottomarini russi ed è emersa trionfante da due secoli di controversie

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An edition of The Theory That Would Not Die (2011)

La teoria che non voleva morire

Come la formula di Bayes ha decifrato il codice Enigma, ha dato la caccia ai sottomarini russi ed è emersa trionfante da due secoli di controversie

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La celebre divulgatrice scientifica Sharon Bertsch McGrayne racconta la scoperta della formula di Bayes e spiega come un teorema matematico all’apparenza semplice abbia potuto innescare una delle maggiori controversie scientifiche di tutti i tempi. Un racconto vivido e ricco di squisiti aneddoti, che ha tutto ciò che ci si aspetta da un thriller moderno.

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Franco Angeli
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Italian
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420

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Italy
Translation Of
The Theory That Would Not Die
Translated From
English

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Paperback
Number of pages
420

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OL46526734M
ISBN 10
8835118794
ISBN 13
9788835118794

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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 traces its discovery by an amateur mathematician in the 1740s through its development into roughly its modern form by French scientist Pierre Simon Laplace. She reveals why respected statisticians rendered it professionally taboo for 150 years -- at the same time that practitioners relied on it to solve crises involving great uncertainty and scanty information, even breaking Germany's Enigma code during World War II, and explains how the advent of off-the-shelf computer technology in the 1980s proved to be a game-changer. Today, Bayes' rule is used everywhere from DNA de-coding to Homeland Security. Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, The Theory That Would Not Die is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest controversies of all time. - Publisher.

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