Physics and Probability: Essays in Honor of Edwin T. Jaynes Book

	Preface
	Recollections of an Independent Thinker	1
	A Look Back: Early Applications of Maximum Entropy Estimation to Quantum Statistical Mechanics	9
	The Jaynes-Cummings Revival	15
	The Jaynes-Cummings Model and the One-Atom-Maser	33
	The Jaynes-Cummings Model is Alive and Well	49
	Self-Consistent Radiation Reaction in Quantum Optics - Jaynes' Influence and a New Example in Cavity QED	63
	Enhancing the Index of Refraction in a Nonabsorbing Medium: Phaseonium Versus a Mixture of Two-Level Atoms	73
	Ed Jaynes' Steak Dinner Problem II	81
	Source Theory of Vacuum Field Effects	91
	The Natural Line Shape	101
	An Operational Approach to Schrodinger's Cat	113
	The Classical Limit of an Atom	117
	Mutual Radiation Reaction in Spontaneous Emission	127
	A Model of Neutron Star Dynamics	137
	The Kinematic Origin of Complex Wave Functions	153
	On Radar Target Identification	161
	On the Difference in Means	177
	Bayesian Analysis, Model Selection and Prediction	195
	Bayesian Numerical Analysis	207
	Quantum Statistical Inference	223
	Application of the Maximum Entropy Principle to Nonlinear Systems Far from Equilibrium	239
	Nonequilibrium Statistical Mechanics	251
	A Backward Look to the Future	261
	Appendix: Vita and Bibliography of Edwin T. Jaynes	277
	Index	283