Margaret Kolb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Kolb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolb |
| SIGNATURE | KOLB M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
In Search of Lost Causes
Nineteenth-century mathematicians and novelists shared a pressing question: how might the events preceding revolution be related? This essay outlines a timeline of this question from the novels of Walter Scott to the mathematical projects of Adolphe Quetelet. Drawing on mathematical history, I show how Pierre Simon Laplace and Nicolas Condorcet preceded Quetelet in searching for a metaphor adequate to the application of probability mathematics to…
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In Search of Lost Causes
Nineteenth-century mathematicians and novelists shared a pressing question: how might the events preceding revolution be related? This essay outlines a timeline of this question from the novels of Walter Scott to the mathematical projects of Adolphe Quetelet. Drawing on mathematical history, I show how Pierre Simon Laplace and Nicolas Condorcet preceded Quetelet in searching for a metaphor adequate to the application of probability mathematics to…
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