β Scribed by Oscar Sheynin
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D. I. Mendeleev (1834Mendeleev ( -1907)), the eminent chemist, rejected doubtful experiments and spoke out against amassing observations. He gave thought to eliminating systematic errors and offered a simple test of the ''harmony'' of observations. Modern statistics has recognized harmony as symmetry of the appropriate density function and has independently quantified asymmetry in accordance with Mendeleev's idea. Mendeleev made mistakes in estimating the plausibility of his data, and he hardly knew Gauss's second formulation of the method of least squares. An analysis of his work sheds light on the level of statistical knowledge in the natural sciences beyond astronomy and geodesy in the late 19th century.
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and it i s probable that there i s some secret here which remains to be discovered." (C. S . Peirce) 'The remark to be quoted was made by F. Werner when he was a student in Princeton. What is Mathematics? lThis statement is quoted here from W. Dubislav's Die Philosophie der Mathematik in dev Gegenwa