Dimitrie Cantemir – The First Shaper of Romanian Statistical Thinking

Gheorghe Săvoiu and Constantin Manea
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Constantin Manea: University of Pitesti

Romanian Statistical Review Supplement, 2013, vol. 61, issue 4, 12-21

Abstract: This paper is devoted to a spark of genius, a brainwave derived from Dimitrie Cantemir’s inexhaustible thinking; among numberless other facets of that huge personality endowed with exceptional intellectual ability, also counts his capacity as the first shaper of Romanian statistical thinking, noticeable not so much in his often invoked’Descriptio Moldaviae’, but especially his work, usually considered exclusively a philosophical book,’The Divan or the Argument of the Wise Man with the World’. The paper summarizes, after a short introduction of bibliographic nature, the main features of the great scholar’s personality of a shaper or moulder of a Romanian school of statistical thinking, for all who read and understood him, for several centuries, after the publication, on 30 August 1698, of his aforementioned work, as an exercise in statistical thinking in the main, and only secondarily as an exericse of philosophical thought – a work considered to hold a special wisdom and breathtaking originality even today, in its inimitable depth and its objective and consistent vision.

Keywords: statistics; shaper; founder; thinking; statistical thinking; Divan; Dimitrie Cantemir (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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