The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life
by Cohen, I. Bernard
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0393328708
- ISBN 13
- 9780393328707
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
W. W. Norton & Company, 2006 8vo (21 cm), 209 pp. Laminated wrappers. "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." (publisher's synopsis)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007275
- Title
- The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life
- Author
- Cohen, I. Bernard
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0393328708
- ISBN 13
- 9780393328707
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- London,united Kingdom
- Date Published
- 2006
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mathematics;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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