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Francis Galton was a polymath Victorian scientist who pioneered in the application of evolutionary genetic principles to study human populations and coined the term eugenics. This biography captures all the facets of his life and contributions.

Geneticists --- Eugenics --- Genetics --- Microbiologists --- History. --- Galton, Francis, --- Biography --- Genetics History --- History --- Scientists

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In this lucid and insightful work, Nikolai Krementsov argues that the concept of eugenics brings together ideas, values, practices, and fears energised by a focus on the future. It has proven so seductive to different groups over time because it provides a way to grapple with fundamental existential questions of human nature and destiny. With and Without Galton develops this argument by tracing the life-story of Florinskii's monograph from its uncelebrated arrival amid the Russian empire's Great Reforms, to its reissue after the Bolshevik Revolution, its decline under Stalinism, and its subsequent resurgence: first, as a founding document of medical genetics, and most recently, as a manifesto for nationalists and racial purists. Krementsov's meticulously researched 'biography of a book' sheds light not only on the peculiar fate of eugenics in Russia, but also on its convoluted transnational history, elucidating the field's protean nature and its continuing and contested appeal to diverse audiences, multiple local trajectories, and global trends. It is required reading for historians of eugenics, science, medicine, education, literature, and Russia, and it will also appeal to the general reader looking for a deeper understanding of this challenging subject.

Eugenics --- History. --- Galton, Francis, --- Florinskīĭ, V. M. --- Francis Galton --- science --- Vasilii Florinskii --- medicine --- USSR --- history --- biography --- eugenics --- Russia

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This is the seventh book in a series of discussions about the great minds in the history and theory of finance. While the series addresses the contributions of scholars in our understanding of financial decisions and markets, this seventh book describes how econometrics developed and how its underlying assumptions created the underpinning of much of modern financial theory. The author shows that the theorists of econometrics were a mix of mathematicians and cosmologists, entrepreneurs, economists and financial scholars. The author demonstrates that by laying down the foundation of empirical analysis, they also forever determined the way in which we think about financial returns and the vocabulary we employ to describe them. Through this volume, the reader can discover the life stories, inspirations, and theories of Carl Friedrich Gauss, Francis Galton, Karl Pearson, Ronald Aylmer Fisher, Harold Hotelling, Alfred Cowles III, Ragnar Frisch, and Trygve Haavelmo, specifically. We learn how each theorist made an intellectual leap simply by thinking about a conventional problem in an unconventional way.

Finance. --- Econometrics. --- Finance, general. --- Eugenics. --- Statistics. --- Gauss, Carl Friedrich, --- Statistical analysis --- Statistical data --- Statistical methods --- Statistical science --- Homiculture --- Race improvement --- 330.08 --- Economisten --- Economics, Mathematical --- Statistics --- Mathematics --- Econometrics --- Euthenics --- Heredity --- Involuntary sterilization --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question --- Gauss, Carl Friedrich --- Galton, Francis --- Pearson, Karl --- Fisher, Ronald Aylmer --- Hotelling, Harold --- Frisch, Ragnar --- Haavelmo, Trygve M. --- Cowles, Alfred