The paths toward randomness [pt 1]

By admin | Published: February 8, 2010

In the preface to the Vicennial edition of his work, On The Shoulders of Giants: a Shandean Postscript, Mr. Merton shares with us a graphical description of the paths of investigation described by Laurence Sterne in the fourth volume of his work– the paths of the first four volumes of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:

The Shandean path of Investigation

My work in many other areas has followed similar paths.

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