TY  - BOOK
AU  - Porter,Theodore M.
TI  - Karl Pearson: the scientific life in a statistical age 
SN  - 9781400835706
AV  - QA276.P64 
U1  - 519.5092 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Princeton, N.J., Woodstock
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Pearson, Karl,
KW  - Statisticians
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Biography
KW  - Statisticiens
KW  - Grande-Bretagne
KW  - Biographies
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - MATHEMATICS
KW  - Applied
KW  - Probability & Statistics
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - collective biographies
KW  - aat
KW  - lcgft
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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