Title: Don't know of anything like it!
Product review: There are many well-written books on the history of mathematics. They differ in structure, focus, and target audience, but they essentially cover the same material as each other. This is the only pop book I found on the history of statistics.I teach a high school algebra and statistics class, and I have my students do biographies of mathematicians. People like John Graunt, Adolphe Quetelet, and Florence Nightengale, who may get brief mentions in other books, find the spotlight on them and their lives' work in this book. Because of this project, I have become familiar with the body of mathematical historical and biographical literature, and I have not come across anything that remotely shares the focus of TRIUMPH OF NUMBERS.As we move to the increasingly data-driven society outlined in Ian Ayres' SUPERCRUNCHERS. I. B. Cohen has written an important book by outlining of the development of data analysis.
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