Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age /

Porter, Theodore M., 1953-

Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter. - Princeton, N.J.: Woodstock : Princeton University Press , (c)2004. - 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations.

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographies 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.



9781400835706


Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.


Statisticians--Great Britain--Biography.


Electronic Books.

QA276 / .K375 2006