ID: 1487
Probability and the Weighing of Evidence.
GOOD, Irving John

Category: Politics/Philosophy, Science/Environment

Place/Publisher/Date:
London, Charles Griffin & Company Ltd. 1950.

Description: First edition; 8vo; original cloth boards and dust jacket. The author's first book, 119 pp. Good was a cryptologist, statistician and early worker on Colossus at Bletchley Park and the University of Manchester. This book expanded on the concept of Alan Turing's Unit "deciban" which measured the smallest weight of evidence perceptible to the intuition. Rare. Fine with a neat previous ownership name stamp and signature to front free endpaper. The dust jacket is slightly rubbed and soiled with a few minor nicks to edges.

Price £1,000.00