Quételet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
- Quételet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
(1796-1874)
A Belgian statistician, author of
On Man and the Development of Human Facilities, An Essay on Social Physics (1835), who applied the mathematics of probability to social phenomena and demonstrated the importance of statistics to social science. Quételet argued that, in the case of social phenomena, the distribution usually follows a
normal curve -a conclusion reached by (among other things) observing the height of soldiers in a regiment. However, his work was for a long time ignored by social scientists, and it was not until the early twentieth century that his writings were rediscovered.
Dictionary of sociology.
2013.
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Quetelet, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques — (1796 1874) A mathematician, astronomer, sociologist, and statistician, Adolphe Quetelet was born in Ghent on 22 February 1796. A brilliant student, he earned a doctorate in mathematics at the University of Ghent and, in October 1819, he… … Historical Dictionary of Brussels
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Quetelet, (Lambert) Adolphe (Jacques) — born Feb. 22, 1796, Ghent, Belg. died Feb. 17, 1874, Brussels Belgian statistician, sociologist, and astronomer. He is known for his application of statistics and the theory of probability to social phenomena. He collected and analyzed government … Universalium
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