Mathematician:Francis Galton

Mathematician

English statistician, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 16 February 1822 in Sparkbrook (near Birmingham), England
• Died: 17 January 1911 in Grayshott House, Haslemere, Surrey, England

Theorems and Definitions

• Galton's Problem

Publications

• 1853: Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa
• 1869: Hereditary Genius
• 1883: Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
• 1889: Natural Inheritance

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Francis Galton": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Galton, Sir Francis (1822-1911)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Galton, Sir Francis (1822-1911)
• 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Galton, Francis (1822-1911)