[Week 5] February 3+5 - Living in a world of numbers
Section outline
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Assigned reading:Charles Babbage, “On the advantage of a Collection of Numbers, to be entitled the Constants of Nature and of Art," Edinburgh Journal of Science n.s. 6 (1832): 334-340.
Ian Hacking, "The granary of science," The Taming of Chance (1990), 55-63.
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