Occupation: Astronomer Birth: February 22, 1796 Death: February 17, 1874
The average man. The emergence of the concept..
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries o….
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and ….
The determination of the average man is not merely a matter of speculative curiosity; it may be of the most important service to the science of man a….
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre to which they all converge….