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4 Reddit comments about The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy:

u/misplaced_my_pants · 5 pointsr/AskAcademia

Have you seen their Highlights for High School feature?

Also, there are sites like Academic Earth that might be useful.

Here are a few blogs with potential. You'll have to decide for yourself if they have inappropriate content.

Here are a few book recommendations covering various fields, in no particular order (though they should all read #1):

  1. A Short History of Nearly Everything
  2. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
  3. Einstein: His Life and Universe
  4. The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
  5. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
  6. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
  7. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
  8. The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer
  9. This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
  10. Cosmos
  11. The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
  12. The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
  13. Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind
  14. The Tell-Tale Brain: A Neuroscientist's Quest for What Makes Us Human
  15. The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
  16. Thinking, Fast and Slow
  17. Chaos: Making a New Science
  18. Isaac Newton
  19. Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
  20. The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

    And here's a video interview with Richard Feynman they might enjoy.
u/xeriscaped · 1 pointr/PhilosophyofScience

Just finished reading this book about the history of Bayesian statistics. An enjoyable read about the history, but light on the theory and application.

u/cavedave · 1 pointr/math

The pdf i have not read fully http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/dreyfus/Kaye_Final.pdf

The book on bayesianism i am reading http://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/0300169698 if you are in the same continent as me (europe) I will post it to you. If not i will review it and tell you if it is worth buying

A page on Poincaré and Dreyfus http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~aar/dreyfus.htm

u/killdozer65 · 1 pointr/aiclass

On amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Theory-That-Would-Not-Die/dp/0300169698/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1321897041&sr=1-1