The Flawed Genius of William Playfair : : The Story of the Father of Statistical Graphics / / David R. Bellhouse.
A product of the Scottish Enlightenment, William Playfair (1759-1823) worked as a statistician, economist, engineer, banker, land speculator, scam artist, and political propagandist. It has been claimed - erroneously - that Playfair was a spy for the British government and ran a forging operation to...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2023] 2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (356 p.) :; 47 colour illustrations |
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