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100 1 _aCohen, I. Bernard,
_d1914-2003.,
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245 1 4 _aThe triumph of numbers :
_bhow counting shaped modern life /
_cI. Bernard Cohen.
_hPR
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton,
_c(c)2005.
300 _a209 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
336 _atext
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337 _aunmediated
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338 _avolume
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504 _a1 (pages 189-199) and index.
505 0 0 _a1. A world of numbers --
_tNumbers everywhere --
_tNumbers in history --
_tNumbers in the Bible : the sin of King David --
_tConsequences of David's sin --
_t2. New worlds based on numbers --
_tKepler's harmonic law --
_tGalileo and the laws of motion --
_tNumbers in the life sciences : does the blood circulate? --
_tA first exercise in demography : how many people can the Earth support? --
_tThe need for life tables --
_tA new world of numbers --
_tSir William Petty and political arithmetic --
_t3. Numerology and mystic philosophy : scientists at play with numbers --
_tWhat's in a name? : converting names into numbers --
_tNumerology in science --
_tA crusader against numerological superstitions --
_t4. Numbers in the age of reason --
_tHutcheson's moral arithmetic --
_tHale's numerical plant and animal science --
_tThomas Jefferson : a life regulated by numbers --
_tBenjamin Franklin and numbers --
_tFranklin and Malthus --
_tFranklin on numbers and smallpox --
_t5. New uses for numbers --
_tNumbers and measures --
_tA concern with numbers in France : Lavoisier's essay on political arithmetic --
_tSir John Sinclair's census of Scotland --
_tPinel's medical numbers --
_tLouis and the numerical method --
_tNew uses for numbers : innovations by Condorcet and Laplace --
_t6. A deluge of statistics --
_tTables galore --
_tGuerry's studies of crime --
_t7. Statistics reaches maturity : the age of Quetelet --
_tNumbers, number science, and Joyce's Ulysses --
_tQuetelet's world of numbers --
_tThe budget of crimes --
_tThe reliability of statistics --
_tComte versus Quetelet : social physics, or sociology? --
_tWhat did Quetelet accomplish? --
_t8. Critics of statistics --
_tCarlyle and Chartism --
_tDickens and statistics --
_tThe Mudfog Association for the Advancement of Everything --
_t"Death's ciphering book" --
_tCorresponding disdain --
_tFacts and figures : the message of Hard times --
_t9. Florence Nightingale --
_tSanitary reform : the evidence of the numbers --
_tA passion for statistics.
520 0 _aThe 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.
530 _a2
650 0 _aMathematical statistics
_xHistory.
650 0 _aStatistics
_xHistory.
650 0 _aScience
_xHistory.
650 0 _aScience
_xMathematical models
_xHistory.
856 4 1 _3Table of contents
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