Everything about Edwin T Jaynes totally explained
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (
July 5,
1922 –
April 30,
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, initiating in 1957 the
MaxEnt interpretation of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of more general
Bayesian/
information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of
Gibbs). He was one of the first to interpret
probability theory as an extension of
Aristotelian logic.
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 gathers various threads of modern thinking about
Bayesian probability and
statistical inference, and contrasts the advantages of Bayesian techniques with the results of other approaches. It was published posthumously in 2003 by
Cambridge University Press from an incomplete manuscript by editor
Larry Bretthorst.
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