Pearson, Karl — The Grammar of Science

Walter Scott, 1892. Hardcover. Karl Pearson FRS FRSE; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 27 April 1936 was an English mathematician and biostatistician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.[3][4] He founded the world's first university statistics department at University College, London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Pearson was also a proponent of social Darwinism, eugenics and scientific racism. When the 23-year-old Albert Einstein started the Olympia Academy study group in 1902, with his two younger friends, Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht, his first reading suggestion was Pearson's The Grammar of Science. This book covered several themes that were later to become part of the theories of Einstein and other scientists. (wiki). xvi+493p + catalogue. fep probably missing; page torn from the publishers catalogue at the end and rear endpaper partly torn out. Boards worn at edges. Uncommon in first edition. An important work. See scans. . Good