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Karl Pearson
Karl Pearson
(; born
Carl Pearson
; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English
eugenicist
,
mathematician
, and
biostatistician
. 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 protégé and biographer of
Sir Francis Galton
. He edited and completed both
William Kingdon Clifford
's ''Common Sense of the Exact Sciences'' (1885) and
Isaac Todhunter
's ''History of the Theory of Elasticity'', Vol. 1 (1886–1893) and Vol. 2 (1893), following their deaths.
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Handbook of Applied Mathematics : Selected Results and Methods
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Pearson
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Carl
Published 1990
Springer US
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