Karl Pearson FRS (March 27, 1857 - April 27, 1936) established the discipline of mathematical statistics. A sesquicentenary conference was held in London on 23 March 2007, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth. In 1911 he founded the world's first university statistics department at University College London. He was a proponent of eugenics, and a protégé and biographer of Sir Francis Galton. He was also a socialist. Wikipedia
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Introduction A Renaissance scientist in Victorian London, Karl Pearson (1857-1936), was a prodigious and consummate literary polymath whose quest for philosophical, spiritual and numerical truth was his lifelong odyssey. www.rutherfordjournal.org/article010107.html