The Pleasures of Statistics

Through his own voice, renowned statistician and educator Frederick Mosteller describes the many projects and events that constituted his more than 60-year career. From his humble beginnings in Western Pennsylvania, to becoming the founding chairman of Harvard University s Department of Statistics, Frederick Mosteller inspired many statisticians, scientists, and students with his unabashed pragmatism, creative thinking, and insatiable spirit for both learning and teaching. Now more than twenty years after its initial inception, Frederick Mosteller s story as he meant for it to be told is available to a new generation of statisticians and researchers.