an English mathematician and biostatistician. Credited with establishing the discipline of mathematical statistics, he founded the world's first university statistics department.

Born

Carl Pearson 27 March 1857 Islington, London, England

Died

27 April 1936 (aged 79) Coldharbour, Surrey, England

Nationality

British

Known for

Principal component analysis Pearson distribution Pearson's chi-squared test Pearson's r Phi coefficient Chi-square distribution Contingency table Histogram Kurtosis Mode Random walk The Grammar of Science

Fields

Lawyer, Germanist, eugenicist, mathematician and statistician (primarily the last)

Alma mater

King's College, Cambridge University of Heidelberg

Awards

Darwin Medal (1898) Weldon Memorial Prize (1912)

Institutions

University College, London King's College, Cambridge

Academic advisors

Francis Galton

adultbasic

Britain

era

1800+

Influenced

Albert Einstein, Henry Ludwell Moore, James Arthur Harris

Notable students

Philip Hall John Wishart Julia Bell Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen

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