This is a collection of notes on the book "Probability Theory: The Logic of Science" by E. T. Jaynes. These notes contain solutions to some of the exercises, details of some of the derivations and some general comments.
Content
This document is for any information that you want to pass on to future readers. This will help people catch up with the reading group, and serves as a good way to share proofs and highlights of discussion. If we make it through the whole book, we can share it online, with credit to everyone who contributed. The plan is to make one markdown file per chapter, whose purpose will be to fill details of proofs, point out errors and controversial points, preserve some of the highlights of our discussions, answer common questions, link to further resources, and (hopefully) provide solutions to the exercises.
Feel free to copy and rehost this content.
Contributions
Feel free to make a pull request, or send me a message and I'll add you as an author of this repo if you want to contribute, or just post your contribution on reddit and I'll format it and add it to the document. If you see any mistakes in the proofs, please either let me know or correct it. Don't hesitate to edit/improve other people's proofs.
Instructions
The files to write in are markdown files (.md), which can be compiled into many other formats with pandoc, or viewed with many different editors. I've found markdown to be the easiest way to take notes with equations. Pandoc Markdown syntax is defined here, and is a superset of several markdown formats (I think) that includes extra features. There's a cheatsheet here, and there's some example formatting and equations in the files chapter1.md and pdf.
We'll mostly be using equations, which are typed using Latex syntax. Inline equations are surrounded by $ signs like $a^2 + b^2 = c^2$, and there should be no space between the equation and the $ sign. Display equations use $$.
How to edit Markdown
Lots of editors can be used to edit markdown while displaying the resulting formatted text and equations. Whatever text editor you prefer probably has a plugin to display markdown. I like Typora, and StackEdit can be good if you want one that runs in a browser. Or you can just edit the plaintext.