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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: ⓘ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.
Apr 3, 2024 · Adolphe Quetelet (born February 22, 1796, Ghent, Belgium—died February 17, 1874, Brussels) was a Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena.
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Adolphe Quetelet was a mathematician, astronomer, statistician, poet, dramatist, and one of the founders of sociology. He was the first person to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations and he introduced the height-weight measure we know today as the body mass index.
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Feb 22, 2012 · Adolphe Quetelet was a Flemish scientist who was influenced by Pierre Laplace and Joseph Fourier. He was the first to use the normal curve other than as an error law.
Adolphe Quetelet was one of the most influential social statisticians of the nineteenth century. His applications of statistical reasoning to social phenomena profoundly influenced the course of European social science. Quetelet was born in Ghent, Belgium on February 22, 1796.
May 14, 2018 · QUETELET, ADOLPHE (1796–1874) Born in Ghent, Belgium, mathematician and demographer Adolphe Quetelet earned a doctorate in mathematics at the age of twenty-three and was elected, one year later, to the Académie royale des sciences et belles-lettres.
Adolphe Quetelet, the father of modern statistics. This mathematician's extraordinary life began in the Napoleonic era, continued under Dutch rule, and culminated in the new Belgium. Quetelet's many activities were linked to astronomy, statistics and sociology.
