AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question
Stanford physicist Peter Sturrock has recently entered the debate with a book, AKA Shakespeare: A Scientific Approach to the Authorship Question, that approaches the discussion from a physicist's perspective using a method called Bayes' Theorem. The method combines many pieces of evidence to try to arrive at the truth. - Symmetry MagazineSturrock turned to statistics, and specifically a method called Bayesian statistical analysis. This technique can provide answers based both on relevant evidence or data, and on pure theory. In other words, probabilities change based on the information you have, and what you think you know. - Popular ScienceThe scientific approach of this book brings together many often-diffuse pieces of evidence... A further intriguing aspect of this book is the accompanying website that hosts the probability calculator used in the text (with the wonderful name of Prospero). This allows readers to enter their own figures ... as they engage with the evidence presented in the book. - The Eagle, Cambridge, UKan innovative book - Journal of Scientific Exploration