Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

Edwin Thompson Jaynes 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 maximum entropy interpretation of thermodynamics as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques.

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Lifespan
1922 – 1998
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Background

Born in
Waterloo
Educated at
Princeton University
Doctoral Advisors
🎓 Eugene Wigner
Doctoral Students
📖 Joseph H. Eberly📖 G. Larry Bretthorst

Timeline

  • 1922

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    Birth
  • 1998

    Died

    Death

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