Mathematician:Karl Pearson

Mathematician
Influential English mathematician and biometrician.

Credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics.

Contributed significantly to the field of biometrics, meteorology, theories of social Darwinism and eugenics.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: 27 March 1857 in London, England
 * Died: 27 April 1936 in Coldharbour, Surrey, England

Theorems and Definitions

 * Pearson's System of Continuous Curves
 * Pearson's Chi-Squared Test
 * Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient

Notable Quotes

 * 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.
 * -- Quoted in : They Say: What Say They? : Let Them Say

Also known as
Karl Pearson was initially named Carl, but changed it to Karl for political reasons.