Porter, Theodore M.,  1953- <br/><br/>
Karl Pearson :  the scientific life in a statistical age / 
Theodore M. Porter. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  c2004. 
 - viii, 342 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0691114455 (acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2003054820 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Statisticians--Great Britain--Biography.<br/>Statisticiens--Great Britain--Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QA276.P64  / P67 2004