Jakob Bielfeld (1717--1770) and the diffusion of statistical concepts in eighteenth century Europe

DOI10.1016/J.HM.2015.05.001zbMATH Open1337.01004arXiv1410.1449OpenAlexW1666695996MaRDI QIDQ5962964FDOQ5962964

Bernard Ycart

Publication date: 25 February 2016

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Published between 1760 and 1770, Bielfeld's writings prove that scholars of the time were acquainted with the concepts of both political arithmetic and German statistik, long before they merged into a new discipline at the beginning the following century. It is argued here that these works may have been an important source of diffusion of statistical concepts at the end of the eighteenth century. Bielfeld is now almost completely forgotten, and the reasons for his lack of fame in posterity are examined.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.1449

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zbMATH Keywords

history of statisticspolitical arithmeticJakob Bielfeld

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of statistics (62-03)

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