Most Honourable Remembrance The Life and Work of Thomas Bayes /

• Main Author: Dale, Andrew I. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2003.
• Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; Statistics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Statistical Theory and Methods.

Most Honourable Remembrance provides an in-depth discussion of the life and work of Thomas Bayes, an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and lay mathematician who planted the seed of modern Bayesian Statistics in 1763 with his posthumous, An Essay Towards Solving a Problem in the Doctrine of C...

Table of Contents:

• A Bayesian Genealogy
• Thomas Bayes: a life
• Divine Benevolence
• An Introduction to the Doctrine of Fluxions
• On a Semi-convergent Series
• The Essay on Chances
• The Supplement to the Essay
• Letters from John Ward
• Miscellaneous Items
• The Notebook
• Memento mori.