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Comment la statistique est-elle entrée en physique ? (2023)

Olivier Rey (Author)

Almagest
Volume: 14
Issue: 2
Pages: 246-254
Publication date: 2023
Language: French

DOI: 10.1484/J.ALMA.5.136770

URI: https://www.brepolsonline.net/doi/abs/10.1484/J.ALMA.5.136770

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Mathematics and its relationship to science Physics Statistics 19th century Scotland Maxwell, James Clerk

Now that statistics is a branch of mathematics, it is easy to imagine that its use in the field of human affairs is a by-product of modern science’s way of looking at the world. Historical study contradicts such an idea: it is in the field of human affairs that quantitative statistics have developed, and it is only afterwards that it became a method for the natural sciences. Most physicists in the nineteenth century considered statistics all too human to have a place in the scientific study of nature. It took all Maxwell’s authority and persuasion to make statistical analysis a new style of scientific thought in physics. [English translation of title by DeepL.com: How did statistics enter physics?]

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