William Stanley Jevons

Castles, I.

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I. Castles

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Jevons pioneered the use of mathematics in economics, taking a greater interest in statistics than any of the other great economists.

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School of Mathematical Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia
C. C. Heyde
Department of Statistics, Columbia University, New York, NY, 10027, USA
C. C. Heyde
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia
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Castles, I. (2001). William Stanley Jevons. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_42

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