Karl Pearson
Subtitle: The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: December 19, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691126357
Subjects: Biography: general; Probability & statistics; Science/Mathematics; Science; Biography / Autobiography; History; Scientists - General; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics; Science / History; 1857-1936; Biography; Great Britain; Pearson, Karl,; Statisticians
First sentence: BEGINNING IN 1892, when he took up statistics as his scientific vocation, Karl Pearson devoted himself relentlessly to a project of almost universal quantification.