Karl Pearson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Pearson

English mathematician and biometrician

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1857

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 27-Apr-1936

Profession: mathematician, historian, psychologist, biographer, statistician, philosopher, historian of mathematics

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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.