Karl Pearson
The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age
1st Edition
Published on 2. January 2010
352 pages
978-1-4008-3570-6 (ISBN)
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Course Book
Language
English
Place of publication
Princeton
United States
Publishing group
De Gruyter
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
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Reflowable
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18 halftones.
18 halftones.
File size
2,19 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4008-3570-6 (9781400835706)
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Person
Theodore Porter is Professor of History at UCLA and author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking and Trust in Numbers (both Princeton)
Content
Preface and Acknowledgments vii
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: An Improbable Personage 1
CHAPTER TWO Lehrjahre of a Poetic Wrangler 13
CHAPTER THREE Apostle of Renunciation: A New Werther 43
CHAPTER FOUR Pearson's Progress: A Nineteenth-Century Passion Play 69
CHAPTER FIVE Cultural Historian in a Political Age 91
CHAPTER SIX Intellectual Love and the Woman Question 125
CHAPTER SEVEN Ether Squirts and the Inaccessibility of Nature 178
CHAPTER EIGHT Scientific Education and Graphical Statistics 215
CHAPTER NINE The Statistical Reformation 249
CHAPTER TEN Epilogue: Composing a Life 297
Bibliography 315
Index 329
CHAPTER ONE Introduction: An Improbable Personage 1
CHAPTER TWO Lehrjahre of a Poetic Wrangler 13
CHAPTER THREE Apostle of Renunciation: A New Werther 43
CHAPTER FOUR Pearson's Progress: A Nineteenth-Century Passion Play 69
CHAPTER FIVE Cultural Historian in a Political Age 91
CHAPTER SIX Intellectual Love and the Woman Question 125
CHAPTER SEVEN Ether Squirts and the Inaccessibility of Nature 178
CHAPTER EIGHT Scientific Education and Graphical Statistics 215
CHAPTER NINE The Statistical Reformation 249
CHAPTER TEN Epilogue: Composing a Life 297
Bibliography 315
Index 329
