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. - 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations
Originally published: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) 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.
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.
9781400835706 (electronic bk.) 1400835704 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctt4bmgn0 JSTOR
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
Statisticians--Great Britain--Biography.
Statisticiens--Grande-Bretagne--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS--Applied.
MATHEMATICS--Probability & Statistics--General.
Statisticians.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
QA276.P64
519.5092
Karl Pearson : the scientific life in a statistical age / Theodore M. Porter. - 1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations
Originally published: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) 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.
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.
9781400835706 (electronic bk.) 1400835704 (electronic bk.)
22573/ctt4bmgn0 JSTOR
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
Pearson, Karl, 1857-1936.
Statisticians--Great Britain--Biography.
Statisticiens--Grande-Bretagne--Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS--Applied.
MATHEMATICS--Probability & Statistics--General.
Statisticians.
Great Britain.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Biographies.
QA276.P64
519.5092