Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.
Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.
Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.
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2004.
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N519.5092/1
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English
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viii, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. Introduction: An Improbable Personage -- Ch. 2. Lehrjahre of Poetic Wrangler -- Ch. 3. Apostle of Renunciation: A New Werther -- Ch. 4. Pearson's Progress: A Nineteenth-Century Passion Play -- Ch. 5. Cultural Historian in a Political Age -- Ch. 6. Intellectual Love and the Woman Question -- C...
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2004.
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New Jersey
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2004.
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"Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosphy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women.".
"Theodore Porter's portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile reason with enthusiasm and to achieve the impersonal perspective of science without sacrificing complex individuality. Even as he longed to experience nature directly and intimately, h...
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Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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0691114455 :
9780691114453 (acid-free paper)
0691114455 (acid-free paper)
9780691114453
0691114455
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519.5092
519.50941
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991017741129702626
