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I will admit at the start that I am proud to have been part of this period of challenge and re-direction (as others have shown, ‘quantitative revolution’ is not properly descriptive), and also that my memory for detail does not extend to who said what, and when. Nevertheless, I hope to present a reasonably faithful picture of what it was like as a participant — how I as an individual changed, and how the group of students and faculty interacted and changed.
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Morrill, R.L. (1983). Recollections of the ‘Quantitative Revolution’s’ Early Years: The University of Washington 1955–65. In: Billinge, M., Gregory, D., Martin, R. (eds) Recollections of a Revolution. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17416-4_4
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