Reading Lists

Curated lists of key texts, each entry annotated with its relevance to the Counting Lives and TDA strands of this project. Lists are organised by topic and graded by level.

  • Topology 9 entries

    TDA Foundations

    Core texts for understanding persistent homology and topological data analysis, from introductory primers to landmark research papers.

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  • Poverty Measurement 8 entries

    Poverty Measurement Classics

    Foundational texts in the history and methodology of poverty measurement, from Victorian social surveys to twentieth-century conceptual debates.

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  • Poverty Measurement 8 entries

    History & Philosophy of Statistics

    Histories of how statistical thinking developed and became embedded in government, science, and social life — essential context for understanding what numbers about poverty can and cannot tell us.

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  • TDA Methods 9 entries

    Applied TDA Methods

    Statistical and computational methods for applying topological data analysis to real datasets, including software references and probability theory for persistence diagrams.

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