Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

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

11 Anmeldelser

4.2

Længde
11T 51M
Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Fakta

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 one hundred and fifty 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 decoding 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.

© 2012 Tantor Media (Lydbog): 9781452676852

Release date

Lydbog: 30. marts 2012

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Free Will Sam Harris
  2. Standard Deviations: Flawed Assumptions, Tortured Data, and Other Ways to Lie with Statistics Gary Smith
  3. The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman Richard P. Feynman
  4. What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge Marcus du Sautoy
  5. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  6. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Jonathan Haidt
  7. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Peter Godfrey-Smith
  8. Energy and Civilization: A History Vaclav Smil
  9. The Gene: An Intimate History Siddhartha Mukherjee
  10. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari
  11. Third Thoughts Steven Weinberg
  12. The Character of Physical Law Richard P. Feynman
  13. The Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less) David Bercovici
  14. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist Richard P. Feynman
  15. The World According to Physics Jim Al-Khalili
  16. The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning Jeremy Lent
  17. The Open Society and Its Enemies: New One-Volume Edition Karl Popper
  18. Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty
  19. Pandora’s Lab: Seven Stories of Science Gone Wrong Paul A. Offit
  20. Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction John Brockman
  21. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari
  22. Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason Justin Smith-Ruiu
  23. The Mysterious World of the Human Genome Frank Ryan
  24. The End of the World is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization Peter Zeihan
  25. The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity Steven Strogatz
  26. The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics Roger Penrose
  27. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life Mark Manson
  28. The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt
  29. Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? Frans de Waal
  30. Exact Thinking in Demented Times: The Vienna Circle and the Epic Quest for the Foundations of Science Karl Sigmund
  31. The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties Paul Collier
  32. The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values Sam Harris
  33. Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century Howard Bloom
  34. The Human Instinct: How We Evolved to Have Reason, Consciousness, and Free Will Kenneth R. Miller
  35. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson
  36. The Anatomy of Fascism Robert O. Paxton
  37. An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise John R. Pierce
  38. Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe Steven Strogatz
  39. The Value of Everything: Who Makes and Who Takes from the Real Economy Mariana Mazzucato
  40. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts Stanislas Dehaene
  41. Brave New World Aldous Huxley
  42. Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past David Reich
  43. Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect Matthew D. Lieberman
  44. The Particle at the End of the Universe Sean Carroll
  45. The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 Christopher Clark

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Prøv gratis