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  • Thumbnail for Adolphe Quetelet
    Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician...
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    mortality, with the risk increasing with distance from the 20–25 range. Adolphe Quetelet, a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician, and sociologist...
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    particles, such as a dusty mirror. It is named after the astronomer Adolphe Quetelet, who observed the phenomenon and explained its formation. A slight...
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  • Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet, proposed that society be modeled using mathematical probability and social statistics. Quetelet's 1835 book, Essay...
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  • at the University of Liège (Belgium). Morren was a student of Adolphe Quetelet. Quetelet made plant phenological observations at the Royal Observatory...
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    honor of the French mathematician Germinal Pierre Dandelin, though Adolphe Quetelet is sometimes given partial credit as well. The Dandelin spheres can...
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    It was principally organised by Belgian astronomer and statistician Adolphe Quetelet, who envisioned a standardisation of European units of measurement...
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    Quetelet is a lunar impact crater, approximately 55 kilometers in diameter, that lies in the Moon's northern hemisphere, on the far side from the Earth...
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  • Punnett, Reginald Pólya, George (1887–1985) Puri, Madan Lal (1929–) Quetelet, Adolphe (1796–1874) Qazi Motahar Hossain (1897–1981) Chand Rattan (1955–)...
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  • The title of Quetelet Professor is a distinction awarded to professors at Columbia University. It is named after Adolphe Quetelet, the Belgian astronomer...
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  • Legendre). Used loss functions and maximum-likelihood estimation Quetelet, Adolphe Belgian 1796 1874 Pioneered the use of probability and statistics...
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    Adolf (redirect from Adolphe (given name))
    Democratic Republic Adolphe Nourrit (1802–1839), French opera singer Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1874), Belgian astronomer, polymath Adolphe Pinard (1844–1934)...
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  • events related to sociology occurred in the 1830s. Events Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet's The Propensity to Crime is published. Events Harriet Martineau's...
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    population growth that he conducted in the mid 1830s, under the guidance of Adolphe Quetelet; see Logistic function § History for details. Verhulst published in...
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    Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Together with Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen and Adolphe Quetelet, he was one of the founders of the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, and...
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  • squaring the circle. He died in Antwerp at the age of thirty-six. Adolphe Quetelet, "Aynscom, François-Xavier", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol...
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    and disappeared in 1823. Goswin de Stassart, Victor-Joseph de Jouy, Adolphe Quetelet, Frédéric de Reiffenberg, Eugène Van Bemmel, and the poet Philippe...
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    in 1826 by King William I of the Netherlands under the impulse of Adolphe Quetelet. It was home to a 100 cm (39 in) diameter aperture Zeiss reflector...
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  • formulated in 1989 although it has historical roots. In the 1830s, Adolphe Quetelet and Louis R. Villermé studied the physical stature of populations....
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  • represented: Professor Charles Wheatstone of King's College, London Adolphe Quetelet, the astronomer royal of Belgium; Professor Friedrich Georg Wilhelm...
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