Correa Moylan Walsh (September 23, 1862 – March 10, 1936) was an American author. He was an early expert in the field of

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numbers.

Biography

Correa Moylan Walsh was born in

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on September 23, 1862. He graduated from

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in 1884. A

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, he wrote on a wide range of topics: from

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, and

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, on the one hand (that of mathematics and the

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) to

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, and

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, on the other (that of the

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and

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). He died in Manhattan on March 10, 1936.

Books

* '' The Measurement of General Exchange-Value.'' (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., 1901) * '' The Fundamental Problem in Monetary Science.'' (New York: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., 1903) *
Shakespeare's Complete Sonnets: A New Arrangement With Introduction and Notes.
' (London and Leipsic: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908) *
The Doctrine of Creation.
' (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1910) *
The Political Science of John Adams: A Study in the Theory of Mixed Government and the Bicameral System.
' (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1915) * '' The Climax of Civilisation.'' (New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1917) * '' Socialism.'' (New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1917) * '' Feminism.'' (New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1917) * '' The Problem of Estimation; A Seventeenth-Century Controversy and its Bearing on Modern Statistical Questions, Especially Index-Numbers.'' (London: P.S. King & Son, 1921)
''The Four Kinds of Economic Value''.
(Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926) *
An Attempted Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem By A New Method.
' (New York: G. E. Stechert & co., 1932)

Articles

Shaw's History of Currency
(''Quarterly Journal of Economics,'' July, 1896)
The Steadily Appreciating Standard
(''Quarterly Journal of Economics,'' April, 1897) * Kant's Transcendental Idealism and Empirical Realism. (''Mind,'' October, 1903, and January, 1904)
Franklin and Plato.
(''The Open Court,'' March, 1906)
The Best Form of Index Number: Discussion.
(''Quarterly Publications of the American Statistical Association,'' March, 1921)
Professor Edgeworth's View on Index-Numbers.
(''Quarterly Journal of Economics'', May, 1924)

References

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