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1827 : la mode de la statistique en France; origine, extension, personnages
Bernard Ycart
Independent to a great extent from the scientific development of the discipline, a trend for statistics has developed in France, from 1827 on. It was probably sparked by Charles Du…
Jakob Bielfeld (1717--1770) and the diffusion of statistical concepts in eighteenth century Europe
Bernard Ycart
Published between 1760 and 1770, Bielfeld's writings prove that scholars of the time were acquainted with the concepts of both political arithmetic and German statistik, long befor…
Letter counting: a stem cell for Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics
Bernard Ycart
Counting letters in written texts is a very ancient practice. It has accompanied the development of Cryptology, Quantitative Linguistics, and Statistics. In Cryptology, counting fr…
Alberti's letter counts
Bernard Ycart
Four centuries before modern statistical linguistics was born, Leon Battista Alberti (1404--1472) compared the frequency of vowels in Latin poems and orations, making the first qua…