Curious and Curiouser: The Mind of Bill Bryson ; 'Seeing Further' Essays Shine Spotlight On Royal Society Geniuses
Buffalo News › October 18, 2010
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Bill Bryson is a natural to edit this volume about the rise of science and the Royal Society. He has written "A Short History of Nearly Everything," as well as other books about Shakespeare, America and the English language.
In his introduction to this collection published in two weeks, Bryson tells us that his favorite member of the Royal Society of London is the Rev. Thomas Bayes, from Tumbridge Wells in Kent, who lived from 1701 to 1761.See the full content of this document
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Curious and Curiouser: The Mind of Bill Bryson ; 'Seeing Further' Essays Shine Spotlight On Royal Society Geniuses
Why so? Hint: If Thomas Bayes were alive today, he'd be working for Google. It was Bayes who invented the theorem, useless at the time because of the lack of sophisticated computational devices, that now enables us to arrive at statistical likelihoods based on partial information.
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