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Shot and Left for Dead: Robert Adrain, The Irish Revolutionary Who Invented Modern Statistics
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19th Century United States HistoryIrish History
Publisher: Silverback Books
Published: Apr 12 2026
Pages: 698
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.53 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Shot and Left for Dead: Robert Adrain, The Irish Revolutionary Who Invented Modern Statistics
Robert Adrain arrived in America in 1798 as a wounded fugitive, shot by one of his own men at the Battle of Antrim, hunted by a former employer, fleeing a failed rebellion with his wife and infant daughter. He arrived with nothing but a self-taught mathematical mind of extraordinary power. What he built from that beginning is one of the most remarkable stories in the history of American science.
Yet Adrain was also a man of profound contradictions: the republican idealist who enslaved people, the genius who could not manage a rowdy classroom, the pioneer whose most important work went unrecognised for nearly a century.
Shot and Left for Dead is the full story of a complete human being, and a forgotten founding figure of modern statistics.
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