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On wasps and club dinners
Author(s) -
Spiegelhalter David
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2004.00068.x
Subject(s) - polymath , estate , catalan , argument (complex analysis) , club , genealogy , classics , history , sociology , art history , law , philosophy , biology , linguistics , paleontology , political science , biochemistry
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth could be termed a Victorian gentleman polymath: born on the family's estate in Edgeworthstown, Ireland, and a trained classicist and barrister, he was capable of both working as a Lecturer in Greek and deriving in 1883 (using what we now call a Bayesian argument) “what may the earliest appearance in any form of the Student's t distribution” 1 . His unusual second name arose from his Catalan refugee mother, whom his father is reputed to have met on the steps of the British Museum.