Karl Pearson | |
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Born | Carl Pearson 27 March 1857 Islington, London, England |
Died | 27 April 1936 Coldharbour, Surrey, England | (aged 79)
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Fields | Lawyer, Germanist, eugenicist, mathematician and statistician (primarily the last) |
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Academic advisors | Francis Galton |
Notable students | Ethel Elderton |
Karl Pearson FRS FRSE[1] (/ˈpɪərsən/; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936[2]) was an English biostatistician, eugenicist, and mathematician.[3][4] He has been credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.[5][6] 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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