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    • Irving John Good (9 December 1916 – 5 April 2009) was a British mathematician who worked as a cryptologist at Bletchley Park with Alan Turing. After the Second World War, Good continued to work with Turing on the design of computers and Bayesian statistics at the University of Manchester. Good moved to the United States where he was … See more

    Life

    Good was born Isadore Jacob Gudak to Polish Jewish parents in London. His father was a watchmaker, who later … See more

    Research and publications

    Good's published work ran to over three million words. He was known for his work on Bayesian statistics. Kass and Raftery credit Good (and in turn Turing) with coining the term Bayes factor. Good published a number of … See more

    BornIsadore Jacob Gudak · 9 December 1916 · London, England, United Kingdom
    Died5 April 2009 (aged 92) · Radford, Virginia, United States
    Known forGood–Thomas algorithm · Good–Toulmin estimator · Good–Turing frequency estimation · Black hole cosmology · Intelligence explosion
    Personality

    Good published a paper under the names IJ Good and "K Caj Doog"—the latter, his own nickname spelled backwards. In a 1988 paper, he introduced its subject by saying, "Many people have contributed to this topic b… See more

    Death

    Good died on 5 April 2009 of natural causes in Radford, Virginia, aged 92. See more

    Books

    • Good, I. J. (1950), Probability and the Weighing of Evidence, London: Griffin, ASIN B0000CHL1R
    • Good, Irving John (1965), The estimation of probabilities: An essay on modern Bayesian methods, Research monograp… See more

    Significant papers

    Good, I. J.. “Explicativity, corroboration, and the relative odds of hypotheses.” Synthese 30 (1975): 39–73. See more

     
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