Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9781400835706
1400835704
0691126356
9780691126357
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| Notes: | Originally published: 2004.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-328) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | 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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| Other form: | Print version: Porter, Theodore M., 1953- Karl Pearson 0691126356
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