[Marxism] (fwd) Ralph Dumain revisits Boris Hessen

[Paddy Apling]

A fanous meeting and paper indeed, which really brought Soviet science to 
worldwide notice.  I was only 6 at the time, but not many years passed 
before I began to learn a lot from two English participants: Desmond Bernal 
and, particularly at first, J B S Haldane, whose science articles in the 
Daily Worker really raised my imagination about both science and marxism. 
It was JBS who really got me interested in statistics while I was still at 
school - and I have never forgotten to use his criteria for trusting the 
results from models.

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com

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> [from Jim Farmelant, came as html-only]
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> Introduction to The Social and Economic Roots of Newton's 'Principia' by
> Boris Hessen
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> Hessen's famous essay was originally published in English translation in:
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> Science at the Cross Roads; Papers Presented to the [2nd] International
> Congress of the History of Science and Technology Held in London from
> June 20th to July 3rd, 1931 by the delegates of the U.S.S.R. (London:
> Kniga, Ltd., 1931), pp. 151-212.
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