The Theory That Would Not Die

"This account of how a once reviled theory, Baye’s rule, came to underpin modern life is both approachable and engrossing" ( Sunday Times ).   A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. In the first-ever acco