The Mathematics of Society: Variation and Error in Quetelet's Statistics

DOI10.1017/S0007087400021695MaRDI QIDQ3221937zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Theodore M. Porter

Publication date 1985

Published in BJHS. The British Journal for the History of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400021695

zbMATH Keywords

center of gravityconservationcriminal statisticsforcesnormal distributionphysics of societyvariation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of probability theory (60-03)

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