Article ID: CBB423212783

P. G. Tait's Statistical Models (2016)

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This paper explains how the discovery of a pocket notebook brings to light P G Tait's surprising involvement in statistics. Tait (1831–1901) was Professor of Mathematics at the Queen's College, Belfast and later of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and a former Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge (senior wrangler and first Smith's prizeman in 1852).

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Authors & Contributors
Azuela, Luz Fernanda
Chinnici, Ileana
Costa, James T.
Daub, Edward E.
Eddy, Matthew Daniel
Endfield, Georgina H.
Journals
Annals of Science: The History of Science and Technology
Applied Optics
Archives of Natural History
Book History
Earth Sciences History: Journal of the History of the Earth Sciences Society
Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences
Publishers
Harvard University Press
Olschki
University of King's College
Springer International Publishing
Edizioni Tassinari
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Notebooks
Physics
Correspondence and corresponding
Mathematics
Natural history
Geology
People
Tait, Peter Guthrie
Darwin, Charles Robert
Maxwell, James Clerk
Stewart, Balfour
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Aldrovandi, Ulisse
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19th century
20th century, early
18th century
16th century
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Meiji period (Japan, 1868-1910)
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Europe
Germany
United States
Scotland
Vienna (Austria)
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Vienna Circle
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