The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900
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The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by Theodore M Porter
Emphasizing the debt of science to nonspecialist intellectuals, Theodore Porter describes in detail the nineteenth-century background that produced the burst of modern statistical innovation of the early 1900s. Statistics arose as a study of society--the science of the statist--and the pioneering statistical physicists and biologists, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Galton, each introduced statistical models by pointing to analogies between his discipline and social science.
"An outstanding feature of MrPorter's book is its depiction of the interrelationships between statistics and certain intellectual and social movements. . . . [The book] is unfailingly interesting."---Morris Kline, New York Times Book Review
"The Rise of Statistical Thinking avoids technicalities and concentrates on the flow of ideas between the natural and social sciences. It emphasizes the philosophical issues raised by novel statistical methods, and how they affected the subject's development."---Ian Stewart, Nature
"The Rise of Statistical Thinking avoids technicalities and concentrates on the flow of ideas between the natural and social sciences. It emphasizes the philosophical issues raised by novel statistical methods, and how they affected the subject's development."---Ian Stewart, Nature
Theodore M. Porter, professeur d'histoire des sciences a l'universite de Californie, a Los Angeles, est l'auteur de The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (1986), et de Karl Pearson: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age (2004). Il est membre de l'American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Gerard Marino, specialiste de la poesie pastorale de la Renaissance et traducteur litteraire, a traduit plusieurs livres pour les Belles Lettres, en particulier l'Arcadie de Iacopo Sannazaro (prix Flaiano 2005) et Blumenberg de Sibylle Lewitscharoff (Prix Buchner 2013).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780691084169 |
| ISBN 10 | 0691084165 |
| Title | The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 |
| Author | Theodore M Porter |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Princeton University Press |
| Year published | 1986-08-21 |
| Number of pages | 348 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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