The Error of Truth: How History and Mathematics Came Together to Form Our Character and Shape Our Worldview

ISBN-13: 9780198831600 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str.

Steven Osterlind

Opis

The Error of Truth recounts the astonishing and unexpected tale of how quantitative thinking came to be, and considers how seeing the world through a quantitate lens has shaped our perception of the world we live in.

Recenzje

The book is, in general, well-written, and the author writes in an accessible style, reflecting that the book is intended for a general audience with no, or little, previous knowledge of mathematics and probability theory...The book tells an important and interesting story with a good balance between sections that describe the general historical events from the considered period and parts that explain the mathematical accomplishments. Jessica Carter, Metascience

O autorze

Professor Steven J. Osterlind is Emeritus Professor (Measurement & Statistics), University of Missouri where he served for 32 years as a distinguished professor and dean. His research interests include statistical modeling with general linear model, hierarchical linear modeling, multilevel modeling; maximum likelihood, Bayesian estimation. He has over 200 academic publications to his name, including five books.