Peter M. Lee, 24 August 1940 — 10 March 2017

Peter is no longer with us, but his remarkable web pages live on! They are currently maintained by Simon Eveson. Tony Sudbery's obituary notice has also appeared in the Guardian, among other places.

Materials for the History of Statistics

Discussion Lists

e-Resources for the history of Mathematics

Earliest Known Uses

Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics

Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics Page due to John Aldrich, University of Southampton

Gallica

Texts available from the Biblioteque Nationale de France

Goettinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum

Texts available from the Goettinger Digitalisierungs-Zentrum

Graphics

	Milestones in the History of Thematic Cartography, Statistical Graphics, and Data Visualization
	Gallery of Data Visualization
	Big Data Representation: review of the 20 Best Tools
	A tenth century graph; from H Gray Funkhauser, "A note on a tenth century graph", Osiris 1 (1936), 260-262, reproduced on p.28 of E R Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Cheshire, CT: Graphics Press 1983.

Insurance and its History

Texts of some books on the history of insurance

The Jahrbuch Project

Electronic Research Archive for Mathematics (ERAM)

Journ@l Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités etde la Statistique

Journ@l Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités etde la Statistique

Major Texts on the Subject

Oscar Sheynin, Theory of Probability: A Historical Essay (published by NG Verlag 2005, ISBN 3-938417-15-3)
Stephen M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty before 1900, Cambridge, MA, and London: Belkap Press of Harvard University Press 1986.
- Table of Contents and Bibliography
Stephen M Stigler, Statistics on the Table: The History of Statistical Concepts and Methods, Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press.
Anders Hald, A History of Probability and Statistics and their applications before 1750, New York, etc.: Wiley 1986.
- Table of Contents
Anders Hald, A History of Mathematical Statistics from 1750 to 1930, New York, etc.: Wiley 1998.
- Table of Contents and Bibliography
Anders Hald, A history of parametric statistical inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935, New York, etc.: Springer, 2007.
- Table of Contents

Mac Tutor History of Mathematics Archive

Mac Tutor History of Mathematics Archive

National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists

National Cataloguing Unit for the Archives of Contemporary Scientists

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography

Outline History of Game Theory

An outline of the history of game theory by Paul Walker

Quotations

Some Quotable Quotes for Statistics by J E H Shaw

Societies

Statistical Tables

Statistical Tables

Symmetry

Plane Symmetry

University of York Examination Papers

University of York Examination Papers on the History of Statistics

University of York Library

The History of Statistics: A Select Bibliography (2nd edition) pdf version or LaTeX source

Other Materials

Four views of an astragulus:; Plate 1 from F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962 (this picture is on the web at http://telescoper.wordpress.com/2009/09/05/game-theory/).
General Bill of Mortality for the Year 1665; illustrated on p.101 of F N David, Games, Gods and Gambling, London: Griffin 1962 (this picture is on the web at http://knoji.com/images/user/357px-bill-of-mortality.jpg).
Cubic and Quartic Equations (LaTeX source) or Cubic and Quartic Equations (pdf file).
Retail Stock Shrinkage; from "Mastering Management. Applied Statistics" by S Howell, Financial Times 1996 July 5.
A 5 x 5 Latin square laid out at Bettgelert Forest in 1929 to study the effect of exposure on Sitka spruce, Norway spruce, Japaneses larch, Pinus contorta and Beech. Photograph taken about 1945;
Plate 6 from J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley 1978 (this picture is on the web at http://www.daa.com.au/uploads/RTEmagicC_latin_square_03.png.png).
Layout of Bettgelert Experiment as gif file;
Layout of Bettgelert Experiment as Word file;
A similar picture occurs as Plate 7 in J F Box, R.A. Fisher: The Life of a Scientist, New York: Wiley 1978.
Matrix Derivation of the Sum of n^k (LaTeX source) or Matrix Derivation of the Sum of n^k (pdf file).
Scene at Gare Montparnasse, 22 October 1895. From front cover of J R Taylor, An Introduction to Error Analysis, Oxford University Press 1982 for Mill Valley, CA: University Science Books (this picture is on the web at http://leganerd.com/2010/10/22/incidente-ferroviario-della-stazione-montparnasse/).
Information on the History of the Normal Law (LaTeX source) or Information on the History of the Normal Law (pdf file).
The quincunx. Figures 7, 8 and 9 from F Galton, Natural Inheritance, London: Macmillan 1889, Chapter V, p.63.
The two-stage quincunx and the law of reversion from F Galton, "Typical laws of heredity", Nature 15 (1877), 492-495, 512-514 and 532-533 = Proceedings of the Royal Institution of Great Britain 8 (1877) 282-301, reprinted in S M Stigler, The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900, Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1986, Fig. 8.6, p.280.
The 'Pascal' triangle as depicted in A.D. 1303 from the front of Chu Shi-Chieh's Ssu Yuan Yü Chien. It is entitled `The Old Method Chart of the Seven Multiplying Squares' and tabulates the binomial coefficients up to the eighth power.
Reproduced as Fig. 53 on p. 55 of The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China. An abridgment by Colin A. Ronan of Joseph Needham's original text. Volume 2: Volume III and a section of Volume IV, Part I of the major series, Cambridge University Press 1981 (this picture is on the web at http://library.thinkquest.org/23062/pastri.jpg).

This page is maintained by Peter M Lee

Revised 5 April 2016