Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning by Alain Desrosières

Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning

Alain Desrosières

382 pages first pub 1993 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics science challenging informative medium-paced
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Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. In this ambitious and sophisticated study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the seventeenth century, Alain Desrosieres shows how the evolution of moder...

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