Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter.

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Porter, Theodore M, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400835706
1400835704

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Karl PearsonDDC classification:

519.5092 22

LOC classification:

QA276.P64

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Contents:

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.

Summary: Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds new light on the inner life of science. Theodore Porter's intensely personal portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and.

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Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.

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Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of philosophy and cultural history as well as ether physics and graphical geometry. His faith in science grew out of a deeply moral quest, reflected also in his socialism and his efforts to find a new basis for relations between men and women. This biography recounts Pearson's extraordinary intellectual adventure and sheds new light on the inner life of science. Theodore Porter's intensely personal portrait of Pearson extends from religious crisis and sexual tensions to metaphysical and.

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