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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ; 22
February 1796 – 17
February 1874) was a
Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician...
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developed what he
called "social physics".
Quetelet himself never intended for the index, then
called the
Quetelet Index, to be used as a
means of medical...
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Quetelet rings are a type of
optical interference pattern occurring at an
illuminated reflective surface covered by fine particles, such as a
dusty mirror...
- The
title of
Quetelet Professor is a
distinction awarded to
professors at
Columbia University. It is
named after Adolphe Quetelet, the
Belgian astronomer...
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Quetelet is a
lunar impact crater,
approximately 55
kilometers in diameter, that lies in the Moon's
northern hemisphere, on the far side from the Earth...
- ****onance of the
Latin name
Laurentius with Larentia. In 1836
Adolphe Quetelet wrote: J'ai cru
remarquer aussi une fréquence plus
grande de ces météores...
- Brussels:
Garnier and
Quetelet. 1828. p. 393.
Correspondance mathématique et
physique (in French). Vol. 6. Brussels:
Garnier and
Quetelet. 1830. p. 121. Plateau...
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appropriated by others, most
notably the
Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet.
Comte endeavored to
unify history, psychology, and
economics through the...
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honor of the
French mathematician Germinal Pierre Dandelin,
though Adolphe Quetelet is
sometimes given partial credit as well. The
Dandelin spheres can be...
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Legendre (1805) and
Gauss (1809) for the
prediction of
planetary movement.
Quetelet was
responsible for
making the
procedure well-known and for
using it extensively...
