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 | The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life (Reprint Edition) by I. Bernard Cohen, Ib Cohen Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 ISBN-10: 0-393-32870-8 / 0393328708 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32870-7 / 9780393328707 From 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 | |