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GOOD, I. J.
Probability and the Weighing of Evidence.
Publisher: London: Charles Griffin & Company Limited, 1950
Stock code: 68748
Price: £1,250 Currency Conversion
First edition, first impression. Born Isadore Jacob Gudak to a Polish-Jewish family in London, Irving John Good (1916-2009) anglicized his name, and was known to his friends as Jack. He worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing, and continued to work with Turing after the war on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. He eventually moved to the United States where he was professor at Virginia Tech. An originator of the concept now known as "technological singularity," Good served as consultant on supercomputers to Stanley Kubrick. This book expanded on the concept of Alan Turing's "deciban", a unit which measured the smallest weight of evidence perceptible to the intuition.
Octavo. Original burgundy Rexene covers in imitation of pebbled cloth, spine printed in gilt. In the original printed dust jacket. A hint of foxing to first two leaves, else a fine copy in a fine jacket with just a hint of rub to the front panel.
