The triumph of numbers : how counting shaped modern life / I. Bernard Cohen.
Imprint
New York : W.W. Norton, 2006, c2005.
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Status
CCQ - Lusail Male Library
QA276
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Description
209 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Contents
A world of numbers -- Numerology and mystic philosophy: scientists at play with numbers -- Numbers in the age of reason -- New uses for numbers -- A deluge of statistics -- Statistics reaches maturity: the age of Quetelet -- Critics of statistic