Karl Pearson

The Scientific Life in a Statistical Age

Autor: Theodore M. Porter

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Princeton University Press

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Karl Pearson, founder of modern statistics, came to this field by way of passionate early studies of...

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Autor

Theodore M. Porter

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2005

strony

352

EAN

9780691126357

ISBN

0691126356

Enbook ID

04641137

Wydawca

Princeton University Press

Waga

534

Wymiary

236 x 157 x 28

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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 even mathematical anxieties. Pearson sought to reconcile reason with enthusiasm and to achieve the impersonal perspective of science without sacrificing complex individuality. Even as he longed to experience nature directly and intimately, he identified science with renunciation and positivistic detachment. Porter finds a turning point in Pearson's career, where his humanistic interests gave way to statistical ones, in his "Grammar of Science" (1892), in which he attempted to establish scientific method as the moral educational basis for a refashioned culture. In this original and engaging book, a leading historian of modern science investigates the interior experience of one man's scientific life while placing it in a rich tapestry of social, political, and intellectual movements.

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