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Mathematicians born on this day:
1647 : Elisabetha Koopman |
Mathematicians who died on this day:
1618 : Valerio |
| Francis Galton | Leonard Dickson | Elisabetha Koopman |
Francis Galton (1822 - 1911)
[Statistics are] the only tools by which an opening may be cut through the formidable thicket of difficulties that bars the path of those who pursue the Science of Man.
Quoted in K Pearson, The Life, Letters and Labours of Francis Galton (London 1914)
Another quotation by one of today's mathematicians
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