Oh Hamilton, Poor Hamilton, Madison Wrote 'Em and You're Feeling So Sad. That, in effect, was the title of the story, sketched out last week before a joint-meeting of the American Statistical Association, the Biometric Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
Plotting the story were two smart mathematicians, Harvard's Frederick Mosteller, and the University of Chicago's David L. Wallace, who have great faith that math can supply answers in what they call "uncertainty situations." To test their faith they took on a classic uncertainty situation: the historically open question of whether Alexander Hamilton or James Madison wrote twelve of the...
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