Edwin Thompson Jaynes
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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
Edwin Thompson Jaynes, c. 1960.
Jaynes around 1982
Josiah Willard Gibbs
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Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American mechanical engineer and scientist who made fundamental theoretical contributions to physics, chemistry, and mathematics. His work on the applications of thermodyna
Edwin Thompson Jaynes
…as being a particular application of more general Bayesian/information theory techniques (although he argued this was already implicit in the works of Josiah Willard Gibbs). Jaynes strongly promoted the interpretation of probability theory as an extension of logic. In 1963, together with his doctoral student Fred Cummings…
Josiah Willard Gibbs from MMS
Willard Gibbs as a young man
Gibbs during his time as a tutor at Yale
Maxwell's sketch of the lines of constant temperature and pressure, made in preparation for his construction of a solid model based on Gibbs's definition of a thermodynamic surface for water (see Maxwell's thermodynamic surface)