Archive for George Boole
baseless!
Posted in Books, Statistics with tags 1922, Bayes theorem, epistemic probability, frequency properties, George Boole, history of statistics, inverse probability, normalised maximum likelihood, Pierre Simon Laplace, R.A. Fisher, Siméon Poisson on July 13, 2021 by xi'an
cobbler’s son
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags Bill Bryson, book review, cobler's son, Evariste Galois, George Boole on June 3, 2012 by xi'an
A marginalia I forgot to mention in my review of Bill Bryson’s “Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the Royal Society“ is that I discovered therein that George Boole FRS was the son of a cobbler. George Boole’s story and fundamental contributions to logic and probability theory is covered in Ian Stewart’s chapter, who is lauding him as a founder of theoretical computer science and of abstract algebra (along with the slightly older Evariste Galois). Anyway, I appreciated the tiny and completely irrelevant connection with Boole, in that my father also was a cobbler!
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