| Description | <p>Pearson's research notes for lectures on the history of statistics, primarily relating to Joseph Louis Lagrange and Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace. The notes include a letter from the Institut De France Acdemie des Sciences regarding Lagrange, bibliographic notes, equations and calculations.</p>
<p>Offprint of F N David, <i>Some Notes on Laplace</i>, (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1965).</p>
<p>Booklet <i>Un Double Centenaire Newton et Laplace, Leur Vie et Leur Oeuvre. Discours Prononce a la Sorbonne</i>, (Paris: Palais de l'Institut de France; 1927).</p>
<p>There are several notes by Egon Sharpe Pearson interspersed throughout the papers, including two folios referring to the original order and subsequent rearrangement of the Laplace manuscripts.</p> |