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ADDITIONAL REVIEWS: "Pearson's story can . . . be read as a triumph of statistics in which a powerful intellect comes to see our field as a great source of enlightenment. As [Theodore M.] Porter writes in a wonderful 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.' That sentence very effectively conveys what I try to tell my students in a first statistics course, that this is a way of thinking which will allow them to see the world in a new and beautiful way, though I do hope that they avoid adopting Pearson's unwavering commitment that statistics is the only way to view the world."--Richard J. Cleary, The American Statistician "Theodore Porter's Karl Pearson explores the fullness and richness of Pearson's intellectual and emotional life, shows us how 'the toil of the years' led to the revolution he wrought in statistics. . . . The book would . . . be a source of both pleasure and profit to any serious reader."--Ramachandran Bharath, MAA Reviews ADDITIONAL ENDORSEMENTS: "Karl Pearson was one of the most significant architects of modern statistics. In this remarkable book, Theodore Porter superbly captures the romance (and seldom has the use of this word been so appropriate) of Karl Pearson's early flirtation with philosophy and the tortured path that led him to statistics."--Stephen Stigler, University of Chicago "Brilliant! Karl Pearson is fortunate to have a biographer who saves him from what he most abhorred: his fear that a life could be reduced to a mere discovery, stripped of all its personal and historical specificity. "--Ken Alder, Northwestern University, author of The Measure of All Things File created: 11/5/2009 | |
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