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Edwin Thompson Jaynes
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
(July 5, 1922 – April 30, 1998) was the Wayman Crow Distinguished Professor of Physics at
Washington University
in
St. Louis
. He wrote extensively on
statistical mechanics
and on foundations of
probability
and
statistical inference
, initiating in 1957 the
MaxEnt interpretation
of thermodynamics, as being a particular application of more general
Bayesian
/
information theory
techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of
Gibbs
). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of
probability theory
as an extension of
logic
.
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