Irving John Good

Irving John Good (Londres, 9 de dezembro de 1916 — Radford (Virgínia), 5 de abril de 2009)^[1][2] foi um matemático britânico.

Trabalhou com criptografia no Bletchley Park com Alan Turing. Após a Segunda Guerra Mundial continuou a trabalhar com Turing no projeto de computadores e estatística bayesiana na Universidade de Manchester. Good mudou-se para os Estados Unidos, onde foi professor no Instituto Politécnico e Universidade Estadual da Virgínia.

• Probability and the Weighing of Evidence (1950), Griffin, London.
• Information, Weight of Evidence: The Singularity Between Probability Measures and Signal Detection (1974) with D.B. Osteyee, Springer, ISBN 978-3540067269.
• Good Thinking: The Foundations of Probability and Its Applications (1983) University of Minnesota Press. Republished by Dover in 2009.

• Dan van der Vat, "Jack Good" (obituary), The Guardian, 29 April 2009, p. 32.
• Hugh Sebag-Montefiore, Enigma: The Battle for the Code, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000, ISBN 978-0297842514.

• Estimação de frequência de Good-Turing
• Criptoanálise da Máquina Enigma
• Teorema principal de MacMahon

• Irving John Good (em inglês) no Mathematics Genealogy Project
• Good's web page at Virginia Tech
• Bibliography ("Shorter Publications List", running to 2300 items) (PDF)
• Biography focusing on Good's role in the history of computing
• Project Euclid An interview with Good can be downloaded from here
• VT Image Base Photographs
• Obituary, Virginia Tech, 6 April 2009
• Obituary, Daily Telegraph, 10 April 2009
• Obituary, The Times, 16 April 2009
• Obituary, The Independent, 14 May 2009
• Eulogy Mathematical eulogy (with Maple code) by Doron Zeilberger, 2 December 2009