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
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