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
"If you're not thinking like a Bayesian, perhaps you should be."-John Allen Paulos, New York Times Book Review
"A masterfully researched tale of human struggle and accomplishment . . . . Renders perplexing mathematical debates digestible and vivid for even the most lay of audiences."-Michael Washburn, Boston Globe
¡°[An] engrossing study¡¦.Her book is a compelling and entertaining fusion of history, theory and biography.¡±-Ian Critchley, Sunday Times
¡°The Theory That Would Not Die is a rollicking tale of the triumph of a powerful mathematical tool.¡±-Andrew Robinson, Nature
¡°The Theory That Would Not Die is the first popular science book to document the rocky story of Bayes¡¯s rule. At times, her tale has everything you would expect of a modern-day thriller. . . . To have crafted a page-turner out of the history of statistics is an impressive feat. If only lectures at university had been this racy.¡±-David Robson, New Scientist
¡°We now know how to think rationally about our uncertain world. This book describes in vivid prose, accessible to the lay person, the development of Bayes' rule over more than two hundred years from an idea to its widespread acceptance in practice.¡± -Dennis Lindley, University College London