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The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life
The Triumph of Numbers How Counting Shaped Modern Life
Author: I. Bernard Cohen
From the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics. 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 o...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393328707
ISBN-10: 0393328708
Publication Date: 7/17/2006
Pages: 224
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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