THE THEORY THAT NEVER DIED. HOW AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MATHEMATICAL IDEA TRANSFORMED THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
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| author | Sharon McGrayne |
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| contents | THE THEORY THAT NEVER DIED. HOW AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MATHEMATICAL IDEA TRANSFORMED THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Sharon McGrayne Comunicación Fisher Laplace Bayes’s rule frequentists Bayes’s rule, a simple eighteenth century theory about assessing knowledge, was controversial during most of the twentieth century but used secretly by Great Britain and the United States during World War II and the Cold War. Palomares and Valencia played important roles in its development in those dark days. The rule is widely used today in the computerized world and in many applications. For instance, Bayes has become political shorthand for something different: for data-based decision- making. The Bayesian Revolution turned out to be a modern paradigm shift for a very pragmatic age. 2015 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511751360022 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.5 |
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| spellingShingle | THE THEORY THAT NEVER DIED. HOW AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MATHEMATICAL IDEA TRANSFORMED THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Sharon McGrayne Comunicación Fisher Laplace Bayes’s rule frequentists THE THEORY THAT NEVER DIED. HOW AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MATHEMATICAL IDEA TRANSFORMED THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Sharon McGrayne Comunicación Fisher Laplace Bayes’s rule frequentists Bayes’s rule, a simple eighteenth century theory about assessing knowledge, was controversial during most of the twentieth century but used secretly by Great Britain and the United States during World War II and the Cold War. Palomares and Valencia played important roles in its development in those dark days. The rule is widely used today in the computerized world and in many applications. For instance, Bayes has become political shorthand for something different: for data-based decision- making. The Bayesian Revolution turned out to be a modern paradigm shift for a very pragmatic age. 2015 artículo científico 2174-3487 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511751360022 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=5117 Mètode Science Studies Journal application/pdf Universitat de València Mètode Science Studies Journal (España) Num.5 |
| title | THE THEORY THAT NEVER DIED. HOW AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY MATHEMATICAL IDEA TRANSFORMED THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY |
| topic | Comunicación Fisher Laplace Bayes’s rule frequentists |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=511751360022 |