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Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5th, 1922 – April 30th, 1998) was
Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at Washington
University in St. Louis. He wrote extensively on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference.
A particular focus of his work was the construction of logical principles for assigning prior probability distributions; see
the principle of maximum entropy, the
principle of transformation groups and Laplace's principle of
indifference.
His last book, Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, attempts to gather together the multiple threads of modern
thinking about Bayesian probability and statistical inference, and to demonstrate the advantages of
Bayesian techniques by comparison with the results of other approaches.
External links
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge University Press, (2003).
ISBN 0521592712.
- Early (1994) version (fragmentary) of Probability Theory: The
Logic of Science.
- A small biographical article .
- Many articles
by E. T. Jaynes .
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