The Lady Tasting Tea
Subtitle: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: W. H. Freeman
Published: April 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780716741060
Subjects: Popular science; 20th century; Science/Mathematics; Scientific Methodology And Research; Statistical Analysis; Science; Statistical methods; History; History & Philosophy; Probability & Statistics - General; Mathematics / General; Earth Sciences - Meteorology & Climatology
First sentence: It was a summer afternoon in Cambridge, England, in the late 1920s.
Description: Discusses how statistics have changed the field of science in the twentieth century, focusing on the theories and ideas of famous scientists and thinkers.