Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5th 1922 - April 20th 1998) was professor of physics at the university of Saint-Louis, Washington. He abundantly wrote about the Inférence bayésienne and its work contributed to spread the methods of them where the traditional statistics were not in a position to apply directly without financial or human damage important, or quite simply by bad conditioning of the data.

It contributed to announce the importance of work of Cox and to generalize them by showing that the probabilities could be seen in way perfectly coherent like an extension to continuous on logic to two values {false, true}. A fundamental theorem of the inductive training shown by Cox and generalized by its care bears for this reason the name of Théorème of Cox-Jaynes.

Its last book, Probability Theory: The Logic off Science summarizes the essence of its work in this field, in a form clear and perfectly accessible to a pupil from final a scientist Frenchwoman. It also left a certain number of notes concerning the mechanisms bayésiens apparently used in the conscious mental operations or not.

Dependant articles

External bonds

  • Edwin Thompson Jaynes. '' Probability Theory: The Logic off Science ''. Cambridge University Close, (2003). ISBN 0521592712.

  • Early (1994) version (fragmentary) off Probability Theory: The Logic off Science .
  • short biography.
  • articles of E.T. Jaynes.

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