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Mar 27, 1857 London Died on 27 Apr 1936 (aged 79)
English mathematician and biometrician
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About Karl Pearson
- Karl Pearson (; born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English 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.
- 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) & Vol.
- 2 (1893) following their deaths.
