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" Karl Pearson : "
Theodore M. Porter.
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BL
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632333
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| Main Entry
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Porter, Theodore M.,1953-
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Karl Pearson : : the scientific life in a statistical age /\ Theodore M. Porter.
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viii, 342 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0691114455 (acid-free paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-328) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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Pearson, Karl,1857-1936.
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Statisticians-- Great Britain, Biography.
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| Dewey Classification
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519.5/092B
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QA276.P64P67 2004
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