Karl Pearson : The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age /

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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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Porter, Theodore M., 1953-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2004
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Pearson, Karl, > 1857-1936.
Statisticians.
MATHEMATICS > Probability & Statistics > General.
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
Statisticiens > Grande-Bretagne > Biographies.
Statisticians > Great Britain > Biography.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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