Alain Desrosières

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Alain Desrosières is a statistician at the INSEE and a sociologist and historian of science at the EHESS (France), well-known for his work in the history of statistics. He is the author of The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning (Harvard University Press, 1998).

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Author's profile at the Centre Alexandre Koyré (EHESS, CNRS)

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