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- Author: I Bernard Cohen
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2006
- ISBN-10: 0393328708
- ISBN-13: 9780393328707
- Format: 14.3 x 20.9 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English
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The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity--taxes, head counts for military service--but not until the Scientific Revolution in the twelfth century did social numbers such as births, deaths, and marriages begin to be analyzed. Cohen shines a new light on familiar figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Dickens; and he reveals Florence Nightingale to be a passionate statistician. Cohen has left us with an engaging and accessible history of numbers, an appreciation of the essential nature of statistics.
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- Author: I Bernard Cohen
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2006
- ISBN-10: 0393328708
- ISBN-13: 9780393328707
- Format: 14.3 x 20.9 x 1.5 cm, minkšti viršeliai
- Language: English English
The great historian of science I. B. Cohen explores how numbers have come to assume a leading role in science, in the operations and structure of government, in marketing, and in many other aspects of daily life. Consulting and collecting numbers has been a feature of human affairs since antiquity--taxes, head counts for military service--but not until the Scientific Revolution in the twelfth century did social numbers such as births, deaths, and marriages begin to be analyzed. Cohen shines a new light on familiar figures such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Dickens; and he reveals Florence Nightingale to be a passionate statistician. Cohen has left us with an engaging and accessible history of numbers, an appreciation of the essential nature of statistics.
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