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daneel_olivaw
Aug12-03, 02:15 AM
Hello, everybody

I'm a new member of this forum and I've got a very important question for anybody who knows the book
Probability Theory - The Logic of Science by E.T. Jaynes.

I've got the book of the Internet (I understand there is a printed version) and I'm missing a few chapters. If somebody has them (ps or pdf files), please tell me if you can send them to me. Thank you![:)]

photon
Aug13-03, 08:48 PM
Sorry, dont have the chapters.
But I just wanted to compliment you on your User Name.
He's one of my favorite Asimov characters.
[:D]

daneel_olivaw
Aug14-03, 12:21 AM
Thanks for the compliment, Daneel is my favourite Asimov character, so any time I get the chance, I use his name. Is it copyrighted?

Anyway, I'm very dissapointed, because nobody seems to have heard of Jaynes, and I just started reading his book on probability theory. And, although I'm just at the first few chapters, I think it promises a lot. Especially for scientific inference, which the main application of the theory developed there (It also involves a robot).

Maybe I should have posted this thread on the Mathematics forum.

Thanks anyway

photon
Aug14-03, 04:53 PM
Thanks for the compliment, Daneel is my favourite Asimov character, so any time I get the chance, I use his name. Is it copyrighted?

No, I don't think it's copyrighted because Isaac Asimov is dead.

Maybe I should have posted this thread on the Mathematics forum.

I think its fine in the Theoretical Physics forum because it sounds like it could relate to the Uncertainty Principle.
[o)]

sammie
Mar9-04, 12:58 PM
I am a grad student in theoretical physics, working my way through "Probability Theory" all by myself as part of my research. I really like the book, but I am stumped on a couple of the exercises. Is there anyone out there who has compiled a solutions manual?