S2E35: A Poolside History of Quant, Part I
Quantitude
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The History of Statistics
The Lady Tasting Tea by David Salzberg is a fascinating read. Many, many of these developments were to solve a substantive problem. As we'll see, some people were trying to understand fertilizer in growing corn. Remember the distribution of deaths by mule kicks in the Prussian army? Oh, yeah. A lot of what Greg and I are talking about is really, really nicely described in this book.
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