The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries against the changing background of intellectual, scientific, and religious thought : lectures by Karl Pearson given at University College, London, during the academic sessions, 1921-1933 / edited by E.S. Pearson
1978, 1st edition. London : C. Griffin. Good library copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges heavily nicked, dust-dulled and rubbed as with age. Ink marks and stamps remain inside. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #416443
ISBN: 0852642504
Physical description; xix, 744 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 732-734) and index. Contents; Part. I. Introduction. The early history of statistics -- Part. II. The founding of the English School of Political Arithmetic -- Part. III. Caspar Neumann and Edmund Halley -- Part. IV. The early successors of Sir William Petty: the political arithmeticians -- Part. v. From Graunt and Halley to the assurance societies -- Part. VI. The descent from Graunt on the mathematical side -- Part. VII. Further work on vital statistics and mortality data -- Part. VIII. The great mathematicians from Newton to Euler -- Part. IX. The religious argument. Further development of political arithmetic in the 18th Century -- Part. X. The combination of mathematics and theology. Bayes and Price and their background -- Sect. XI-XIV. The great french mathematicians -- Part. XI. Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat De Condorect: 1743-1794 -- Part. XII. Jean Le Rond D'Alembert: 1717-1783 -- Part. XIII. Joseph Louis Lagrange: 1736-1813 -- Part. XIV. Pierre Simon Laplace: 1749-1827. Subjects; 1600-1799. Mathematical statistics History 17th century. Mathematical statistics History 18th century. Mathematical statistics. Statistics History. Mathematical statistics History 18th century Addresses, essays, lectures. Statistical mathematics 1600-1800.
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