Most Honourable Remembrance
The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes
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ISBN-13:
9780387004990
Veröffentl:
2003
Erscheinungsdatum:
02.09.2003
Seiten:
670
Autor:
Andrew I Dale
Gewicht:
1094 g
Format:
243x164x37 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Most Honourable Remembrance provides an in-depth discussion of the life and work of Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and lay mathematician who planted the seed of modern Bayesian Statistics in 1763 with his posthumous, An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of Chances. After biographical details of Bayes' ancestors, consideration is turned to what is known of Thomas Bayes, the time in which he lived, and also the town in which he spent the major part of his professional life, Tunbridge Wells.
Thomas Bayes (1702 - 1761) was an English clergyman and mathematician.Until around 1950, he was considered a minor contributor to thehistory of mathematics, and if he was known at all it was because hisname was attached to a simple theorem in the calculus ofprobabilities. Since then, however, that theorem and the problem Bayeswas able to solve with it have become the basis for an importantbranch of statistical methodology, the problem of inverse probability.
A Bayesian Genealogy.- Thomas Bayes: a life.- Divine Benevolence.- An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions.- On a Semi-convergent Series.- The Essay on Chances.- The Supplement to the Essay.- Letters from John Ward.- Miscellaneous Items.- The Notebook.- Memento mori.
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