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Karl Pearson : The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age /
Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new b...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
2004
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An improbable personage
- Lehrjahre of a poetic wrangler
- Apostle of renunciation: a new Werther
- Pearson's progress: a nineteenth-century passion play
- Cultural historian in a political age
- Intellectual love and the woman question
- Ether squirts and the inaccessibility of nature
- Scientific education and graphical statistics
- The statistical reformation
- Composing a life.