Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet FRSF or FRSE (French: ⓘ; 22 February 1796 – 17 February 1874) [1] was a Belgian astronomer, mathematician, statistician and sociologist who founded and directed the Brussels Observatory and was influential in introducing statistical methods to the social sciences.

Adolphe Quetelet (born February 22, 1796, Ghent, Belgium—died February 17, 1874, Brussels) was a Belgian mathematician, astronomer, statistician, and sociologist known for his application of statistics and probability theory to social phenomena.

Adolphe Quetelet was a mathematician, astronomer, statistician, poet, dramatist, and one of the founders of sociology. He was the first person to apply the statistical normal distribution to characteristics of human populations and he introduced the height-weight measure we know today as the body mass index.

Adolphe Quetelet (/kœt.lɛ/), de son nom complet Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, né à Gand le 22 février 1796 et mort à Bruxelles le 17 février 1874, est un mathématicien, astronome, naturaliste et statisticien belge, précurseur de l'étude démographique et fondateur de l' observatoire royal de Belgique.

2012年2月22日 · Adolphe Quetelet was a Flemish scientist who was influenced by Pierre Laplace and Joseph Fourier. He was the first to use the normal curve other than as an error law.

Adolphe Quetelet was one of the most influential social statisticians of the nineteenth century. His applications of statistical reasoning to social phenomena profoundly influenced the course of European social science.

2018年5月14日 · Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (1796-1874), best known for his contributions to statistics, was born in the Belgian city of Ghent. When he was seven his father died, and Quetelet, on finishing secondary school at …

Who was Adolphe Quetelet? Born in Belgium in 1796, Quetelet early revealed a talent for the sciences in combination with a deep interest in the humanities, including the performing arts, painting, and poetry.

Adolphe Quetelet, whose full name was Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, was born in Ghent on 22 February 1796. This mathematician's extraordinary life began in the Napoleonic era, continued under Dutch rule, and culminated in the new Belgium.

2024年2月25日 · Active in many area of science, notably mathematics, astronomy and meteorology, Adolphe Quetelet owes his celebrity to the international blossoming under his impetus of the study of populations, emanating from sophisticated statistics organized systematically and treated probabilistically.