Leading Personalities in Statistical Sciences
Subtitle: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics)
Contributors: Norman L. Johnson (Editor); Samuel Kotz (Editor)
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Published: May 23, 1997
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780471163817
First sentence: Ernst Abbe overcame a childhood of privation and a financially precarious situation early in his academic career when he completed his inaugural dissertation, "On the Law of Distribution of Errors in Observation Series."