Karl Pearson: A Reader’s Guide

Further searching & Websites

The secondary works listed above have further references and the Science, Social Science and Art & Humanities citation indexes will generate more. The Current Index to Statistics, Isis and Historia Mathematica index papers in statistics, history of science and the history of mathematics.

Web sites

For Francis Galton see the website created by Gavan Tredoux

http://www.mugu.com/galton/

For a sketch of the history of probability and statistics and notes on some of the key people see my

Figures from the History of Probability and Statistics

For the history of statistics see Peter Lee’s

Materials for the History of Statistics

For the history of mathematics see David Wilkins’s

Websites relevant to the History of Mathematics

MedHist the Wellcome Library’s gateway to internet resources for the history of medicine has sections on genetics and eugenics.