Mathematician:Francis Galton

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Mathematician

English statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician.

Discovered the phenomenon of regression to the mean in $1875$.

Formulated the law of ancestral heredity soon after.

Introduced his index of correlation in $1888$.


Nationality

English


History

  • Born: 16 February 1822 in Sparkbrook (near Birmingham), England
  • Died: 17 January 1911 in Grayshott House, Haslemere, Surrey, England


Theorems and Definitions

Definitions of concepts named for Francis Galton can be found here.


Publications

  • 1853: Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
  • 1869: Hereditary Genius
  • 1883: Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
  • 1889: Natural Inheritance


Sources