Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Edwin Thompson Jaynes (July 5th, 1922 - April 30th, 1998) was Wayman Crow Distinguised Professor of Physics at Washington University in St. Louis. He wrote voluminously on statistical mechanics and on foundations of probability and statistical inference.
His book Probability Theory: The Logic of Science gathers together multiple threads of modern thinking regarding Bayesian probability and statistical inference.
External links
- Edwin Thompson Jaynes. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Preprint: Washington University, (1996). -- http://omega.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html and http://bayes.wustl.edu/etj/prob/book.pdf
- A small biographical article is available here.
- Many articles by E. T. Jaynes are available here.