/sci/ - Science & Math

>>15197747
Human Accomplishment by Charles Murray
>>15197097
It was a statistical exercise. Essentially, what he did was the following. Pick a subject -- in our case say math. Then grab various books on the topic (say history of math book) from various sources including European, American, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Arab etc.. Then analyze which names and "events" were mentioned the most AND took up the most space. Those mentioned in over 50% of sources are then considered significant. Then he standardized for people who was "mentioned" most AND took up the most spaced, and you get lists like pic rel -- rather accurate if you ask me.