Judea Pearl Notes His Book 'Causality' Has 'Infinite Lifespan' With 5,000+ Citations
yudapearl · x · 2026-10-26
Judea Pearl shared the Google Scholar page for his 2009 Cambridge book Causality, remarking that it seems to have an "infinite lifespan". The book turned causation from a nebulous concept into a mathematical theory, unifying probabilistic, manipulative, counterfactual and structural approaches, and has been cited in more than 5,000 scientific publications across statistics, AI, economics, philosophy and epidemiology.
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