Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
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Pub. Date
[1993]
Description
Marie Sktodowska Curie, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Gerty Radnitz Cori, Irène Joliot-Curie, Barbara McClintock, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Rita Levi-Montalcini, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin, Chien-Shiung Wu, Gertrude B. Elion, Rosalind Elsie Franklin, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
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Pub. Date
c2011
Description
"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...