| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Methodos series ; v. 4 |
|
Methodos series ; v. 4.
|
| Contents |
Physico-theology and mathematics, 1710-1794 -- Physiology, probabilities and statistics, 1795-1830 -- Statistical sources, law and medicine, 1846-1876 -- Selection, sexes and statistics, since 1871 -- A sociological issue and its perversion, 1898-1942 -- A stochastic re-evaluation -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
Since the 18th century, one phenomenon, the proportion of the sexes at birth among human beings, has contributed to various developments such as the calculus of probabilities, administrative statistics, the moral and social sciences, the statistics of variability, post-Darwinian biology and Durkheimian sociology. This fact is brought to the critical attention of readers who rarely work together -- mathematicians, biologists, historians, social scientists and historians of the sciences -- along a three centuries European journey, meeting S??ssmilch, Condorcet, Laplace, Fourier, Girou de Buzarei |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-249) and index |
| Notes |
Translated from French manuscript |
|
Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
| Subject |
Sex ratio -- Research -- History
|
|
Sex ratio.
|
|
Sex Ratio
|
|
Science -- history
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
|
|
Sciences sociales.
|
|
Sciences humaines.
|
|
Distribution (Probability theory)
|
|
Sex role
|
|
Social sciences
|
|
Social sciences -- Methodology
|
|
Sociology
|
|
Geslachtsverhouding.
|
|
Geboorte.
|
|
Wiskundige modellen.
|
|
Biosociale aspecten.
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Jaisson, Marie
|
| ISBN |
9781402060366 |
|
140206036X |
|
1402060351 |
|
9781402060359 |
|
