CHANCE magazine this week: ”The Theory That Would Not Die is ...carefully balanced to be accessible to a lay audience while captivating to a statistical one. Told without formulas, this eloquently written story is the history of an idea—a far-from-exhaustive, but enlightening, chronicle of the triumphs of Bayesian analysis.”
CHANCE's cover story is an interview with me about writing the book.
http://chance.amstat.org/2012/02/mcgrayne-interview/
Chance editors interviewed me extensively – in Paris, in Maryland, in Washington DC., and by email. They asked probing questions– including my opinion of some of the book's critics on Amazon.com.
The issue also has a review by Christian Robert and a Letter from Editor Sam Behseta.
chance.amstat.org/2012/02/editors-letter-vol-25-no-1/
Chance is the American Statistical Association’s magazine for general readers interested in analyzing data.
And who are the three men on the cover? Laplace is front and center – where he should be. Thomas Bayes is on the left and Harold Jeffreys on the right.