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Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: [kətlɛ] ; 22
February 1796 – 17
February 1874) was a Belgian-French 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 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...
- 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 rings are an
optical interference pattern that
appears on an
illuminated reflective surface covered by fine particles, such as dust on a mirror...
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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...
- 19th-century
pioneers in statistics: Carl
Friedrich Gauss and
Adolphe Quetelet.
Gauss discovered the
normal distribution (bell-shaped curve):
given a...
- Brussels:
Garnier and
Quetelet. 1828. p. 393.
Correspondance mathématique et
physique (in French). Vol. 6. Brussels:
Garnier and
Quetelet. 1830. p. 121. Faraday...
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discovered by a
number of
people contemporaneously,
including Steiner (1824),
Quetelet (1825),
Bellavitis (1836),
Stubbs and
Ingram (1842–3) and
Kelvin (1845)...
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First coined by
Belgian sociologist and
criminologist Adolphe Quetelet in the 19th century, the dark
figure of crime,
hidden figure of crime, or latent...
