Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age - Porter, Theodore M., 1953- (Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index.
Keywords: Pearson, Karl, -- 1857-1936.; Statisticians -- Great Britain -- Biography; Statisticiens -- Great Britain -- Biographies