Pearson, Egon Sharpe, 1895-1980 (statistician)
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1895 - 1980
Biography
Egon Sharpe Pearson (1895-1980), statistician, was born at Hampstead, London, on 11 August 1895, son of the biometrician Karl Pearson. He attended Dragon School, Oxford, and Winchester College before entering Trinity College, Cambridge (B.A., 1920; M.A., 1924), where he studied mathematics. Pearson became a statistics lecturer in his father's department at University College London, and was appointed head of the statistics department, 1933, and professor, 1935. During the Second World War, he was seconded to the Ordnance Board. He was closely connected with the journal Biometrika, and was its editor for many years. Pearson retired from his London chair in 1960, and died at West Lavington, near Midhurst, Sussex, on 12 June 1980.
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Egon Pearson: Cambridge lecture notes
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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.7889
Scope and Contents
Lecture notes taken by Pearson while a student at Cambridge University: T. Bromwich, differential equations of mathematical physics, April-June 1919. A.S. Eddington, combination of observations, post First World War. A.S. Eddington, relativity, post First World War. A.S. Eddington, spherical astronomy and determination of orbits, post First World War. A.S. Eddington, spherical astronomy, post First World War. G.H. Hardy, differentation and maxima and mimima implicit functions, Autumn 1915....
Dates:
1914-1920
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