The Triumph of Numbers

How Counting Shaped Modern Life

By: I. Bernard Cohen

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Paperback | 1 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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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 antiquityâ"taxes, head counts for military serviceâ"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.

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Brief, lively, and highly entertaining.--William Grimes "New York Times"

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