TY - BOOK AU - Porter,Theodore M. TI - Karl Pearson: the scientific life in a statistical age SN - 0691114455 (acid-free paper) AV - QA276.P64 P67 2004 PY - 2004/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Pearson, Karl, KW - Statisticians KW - Great Britain KW - Biography KW - Statisticiens KW - Biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/prin051/20 03054820.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/prin051/2003054820 .html ER -