The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive's biography of Karl Pearson, the English mathematician who founded the discipline of mathematical statistics, covering his career at University College London, his major statistical innovations and his honors from the Royal Society.
Facts
PublisherMacTutor History of Mathematics, University of St Andrews
URLhttps://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pearson/
Source Typeacademic biography
Reliability Tier2
A biography from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, a university-maintained academic history project (University of St Andrews); used here for uncontested biographical and bibliographic facts, each cross-checked during research against an independent citation of the primary papers it describes. Sources
Karl Pearson (MacTutor)
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