Thanks, I agree. I wish that would have been offered to me. I did have a math professor who had written a text on Number Theory and I always found his discussions of History fascinating. My favorite was Descartes.
My History of Stats was pretty limited to "When I was at ?? University..." and "I met Mantel once..." We used to call them the "begats"..."Well, my professor studied under this guy who knew that guy who worked with this guy who went to school with so and so who knew Pearson." Warren [EMAIL PROTECTED] (User968758) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > I think there should be a "History of Statistics" course, aimed at more > advanced graduate students. And many places have such a course. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
