Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2004.Description: viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691114455 (acid-free paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • QA276.P64 P67 2004
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Contents:
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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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.

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