William Hazlitt
English essayist and writer
Karl Pearson
English mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857-1936)
Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician, eugenicist, and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.
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Karl Pearson was an English biostatistician, eugenicist, and mathematician. He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. He founded the world’s first university statistics department at University College London in 1911, and contributed significantly to the field of biometrics and meteorology. Pearson was also a proponent of Social Darwinism and eugenics, and his thought is an example of what is today described as scientific racism. Pearson was a protege and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He edited and completed both William Kingdon Clifford’s Common Sense of the Exact Sciencesand Isaac Todhunter’s History of the Theory of Elasticity, Vol. 1and Vol. 2 (1893), following their deaths.
2 Quotes by Karl Pearson
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
Karl PearsonEnglish mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857-1936)
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The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
Karl PearsonEnglish mathematician, biometrician, and eugenicist (1857-1936)