The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes� Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy. In the first-ever account of Bayes� rule for general readers, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the controversies and human obsessions surrounding it. She traces its discovery by the amateur mathematician Reverend Bayes in the 1740s throug