# Karl Pearson — The Education of Henry Adams character guide

> Karl Pearson in The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Pearson

**First appearance:** 0033-xxxi-the-grammar-of-science-1903

## Who they are

English mathematician and biometrician.

## In the story

### [XXXI: The Grammar of Science (1903)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_education_of_henry_adams_se/chapters/xxxi-the-grammar-of-science-1903)

Author of 'The Grammar of Science', whose radical assertion that chaos is all science can logically assert of the supersensuous marks a decisive break from nineteenth-century scientific orthodoxy.

### [A Law of Acceleration (1904)](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_education_of_henry_adams_se/chapters/xxxiv-a-law-of-acceleration-1904)

Mentioned for his notions of the universe that would have halted earlier science if taken seriously.

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