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ISBN-10: 1157398995
ISBN-13: 9781157398998
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Billy Bragg, Ken Loach, John A. Hobson, Karl Pearson, Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford, Terry Eagleton, Joseph Needham, Paul Foot, Saffron Burrows, Edward Aveling, Ashok Kumar, Claudia Jones, George Griffith, George Julian Harney, Rose Hacker, Kenelm Hubert Digby, Marko Attila Hoare, Blaggers ITA, Cedric Belfrage, Lionel Britton, Hilary Wainwright, Moshe Machover, Dora Russell, Lynne Segal, Victor Grayson, Emma Cons, Geoff Southern, Ernest Charles Jones, Arthur Wragg, David Widgery, Charles Lapworth, Katharine Glasier, John Goodwyn… Barmby, Dan Irving, Helen Macfarlane, Henry W. Lee, Ian Saville, Crisis, Roy Bailey, Samuel George Hobson, Joshua Hobson, Hubert Bland, Ben Webb, James Elishama Smith, John Rose, Charles Lindley, Charles Rowley. Excerpt: Karl Pearson FRS (27 March 1857 - 27 April 1936) was an influential English mathematician who has been credited for establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protege and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. Carl Pearson, later known as Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was born to William Pearson and Fanny Smith, who had three children, Aurthur, Carl (Karl) and Amy. William Pearson also sired an illegitimate son, Frederick Mockett. Pearson's mother, Fanny Pearson nee Smith, came from a family of master mariners who sailed their own ships from Hull; his father read law at Edinburgh and was a successful barrister and Queen's Counsel (QC). William Pearson's father's family came from the North Riding of Yorkshire. "Carl Pearson" inadvertently became "Karl Pearson" when he enrolled at the University of Heidelberg in 18...