TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cohen,I.Bernard
TI  - The triumph of numbers: how counting shaped modern life 
SN  - 9780393057690
AV  - QA276 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Mathematical statistics
KW  - History
KW  - Statistics
KW  - Science
KW  - Mathematical models
N1  - 1 (pages 189-199) and index; 1. A world of numbers --; Numbers everywhere --; Numbers in history --; Numbers in the Bible : the sin of King David --; Consequences of David's sin --; 2. New worlds based on numbers --; Kepler's harmonic law --; Galileo and the laws of motion --; Numbers in the life sciences : does the blood circulate? --; A first exercise in demography : how many people can the Earth support? --; The need for life tables --; A new world of numbers --; Sir William Petty and political arithmetic --; 3. Numerology and mystic philosophy : scientists at play with numbers --; What's in a name? : converting names into numbers --; Numerology in science --; A crusader against numerological superstitions --; 4. Numbers in the age of reason --; Hutcheson's moral arithmetic --; Hale's numerical plant and animal science --; Thomas Jefferson : a life regulated by numbers --; Benjamin Franklin and numbers --; Franklin and Malthus --; Franklin on numbers and smallpox --; 5. New uses for numbers --; Numbers and measures --; A concern with numbers in France : Lavoisier's essay on political arithmetic --; Sir John Sinclair's census of Scotland --; Pinel's medical numbers --; Louis and the numerical method --; New uses for numbers : innovations by Condorcet and Laplace --; 6. A deluge of statistics --; Tables galore --; Guerry's studies of crime --; 7. Statistics reaches maturity : the age of Quetelet --; Numbers, number science, and Joyce's Ulysses --; Quetelet's world of numbers --; The budget of crimes --; The reliability of statistics --; Comte versus Quetelet : social physics, or sociology? --; What did Quetelet accomplish? --; 8. Critics of statistics --; Carlyle and Chartism --; Dickens and statistics --; The Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything --; "Death's ciphering book" --; Corresponding disdain --; Facts and figures : the message of Hard times --; 9. Florence Nightingale --; Sanitary reform : the evidence of the numbers --; A passion for statistics; 2
N2  - The Triumph of Numbers explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in just about everywhere in science, in the operations and s tructure of government, in the analysis of society, in marketing, in sports, and more
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