Searching for Patterns by Chesney Thomas;

Author:Chesney, Thomas;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nottingham University Press
Published: 2009-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 5.6: A bag of words

As unlikely as it sounds, this point was fiercely debated for many years, and eventually it was pretty much agreed that the answer was yes. Step forward Joseph Fourier.

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1.Barber, D. Machine learning: a probabilistic approach. David Barber is an academic working in the area of Information Processing. He hasn’t got round to publishing this book properly yet, but has kept a draft version available on the webpage of whatever institute he’s currently working at. Right now it’s the Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning at University College London.

2.Dale, A.I. 1999. A History of Inverse Probability 2nd edition. Springer.

This book contains in a few pages almost everything we know about Thomas Bayes.

3.Devlin, K. 2008. The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern. Basic Books.

4.Hacking, I. 2006. The Emergence of Probability 2nd edition. Cambridge University Press.

5.Hoffman, P. 1998. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers. Fourth Estate.

Paul Erdös is mentioned briefly in this chapter. He is well worth a book of his own and The man who loved only numbers is it. It seems he spent his entire life, quite literally, working on proving theorems. My favourite Paul Erdös story is when he was about to have surgery on one eye, and asked the surgeon if he would be able to read. Assuming he meant if the procedure was successful the surgeon said yes of course, only to land in an argument when Erdös brought a maths book into the theatre with him, to read with his one good eye while the surgeon was working on the other. The argument was only settled and the operation started when the surgeon phoned up the local university and had them send down a mathematician so Erdös could talk with him about maths throughout.

6.Mlodinow, L. 2002. Euclid’s Window. Penguin Press.

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