Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.
Pubblicazione:
Princeton : Princeton university press, 2004.
Descrizione fisica:
VIII, 342 p. : ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Preface and acknowledgments. 1. Introduction: an improbable personage 2. Lehrjahre of a poetic Wrangler 3. Apostle of renunciation: a new Werther 4. Pearson's progress: a nineteenth century passion play 5. Cultural historian in apolitica age 6. Intellectual love and the woman question 7. Ether squirts and the inaccessibility of nature 8. Scientific education and graphical statistics 9. The statistical reformation 10. Epilogue: composing a life. Bibliography. Index
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