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Karl Pearson

Born

in Islington, London, England, The United Kingdom

March 27, 1857

Died

April 27, 1936

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Pearson

Genre

Science, Mathematics, Statistics

Influences

Charles Darwin, Thomas Henry Huxley, Francis Galton, Walter Frank Raph ...more

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Karl Pearson FRS (/ˈpɪərsɨn/) (27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) (originally named Carl) was an influential English mathematician who has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.

In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton.

A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth.

When the 23 year-old Albert Einstein started a study group, the Olympia Academy, with his two younger friends, Maurice Solovine and Conrad Habicht, he suggested that the first book to be read was Pearson's The Grammar of Science. This book cove ...more

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	The Grammar of Science 4.06 avg rating — 32 ratings — 93 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Groundwork of Eugenics by Karl Pearson, Roy Pitchford (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The History of Statistics in the 17th and 18th Centuries, Against the Changing Background of Intellectual, Scientific and Religious Thought: Lecture by Karl Pearson, E. S. Pearson (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1978	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics) (Volume 1) 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2010 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	National Life from the Standpoint of Science 3.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2009 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The function of science in the modern state 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A First Study of the Statistics of Pulmonary Tuberculosis 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ethic of Freethought: And Other Addresses and Essays 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2015 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eugenics and Public Health: A Lecture Delivered at the York Congress of the Royal Sanitary Institute, July 30th, 1912 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On the Theory of Contingency: And Its Relation to Association and Normal Correlation 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”
― Karl Pearson

tags: beauty, benevolence, consciousness, order, perception, reason, senses

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“The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiased by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.”
― Karl Pearson, The Grammar of Science

tags: characteristic, classification, facts, feelings, function, habit, judgment, mind, science, scientific, unbiased

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“Her statistics were more than a study... For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique Sociale is annotated by her on every page. Florence Nightingale believed—and in all the actions of her life acted upon that belief—that the administrator could only be successful if he were guided by statistical knowledge. The legislator—to say nothing of the politician—too often failed for want of this knowledge.”
― Karl Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics)

tags: adolphe-quetelet, belief, florence-nightingale, hero, knowledge, nightingale, physique-sociale, quetelet, science, statistics, study

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