{"product_id":"the-triumph-of-numbers-how-counting-shaped-modern-life-0393328708","title":"The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393328708\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Cohen, I. Bernard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the pyramids to mortality tables, Galileo to Florence Nightingale, a vibrant history of numbers and the birth of statistics. 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 antiquity-taxes, head counts for military service-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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855946219808,"sku":"NEW0393328708","price":13.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71dtT67ygYL.jpg?v=1781544186","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-triumph-of-numbers-how-counting-shaped-modern-life-0393328708","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}