Mathematical Statistics

🇬🇧Karl Pearson

Mathematics

1857–1936

"For the present the Grammar may yet be of service. After an eight years' life and... 4000 copies, it reappears in a revised and enlarged form."

🇭🇺Paul Halmos

Mathematics

1916–2006

"I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession."

"The fact that the mean recurrence time is infinite implies that the chance fluctuations in an individual prolonged coin-tossing game are far removed from the familiar pattern governed by the normal distribution."

"Yes, but when I discovered it, it stayed discovered."

"Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4."