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Florence Nightingale (/ ˈ n aɪ t ɪ ŋ ɡ eɪ l /; 12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer, statistician and the founder of modern nursing.Nightingale came to prominence while serving as a manager and trainer of nurses during the Crimean War, in which she organised care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. [4]
Florence Nightingale. Florence Nightingale, like the majority of people living in the Victorian time period, believed in the miasma theory of disease. [4] Though she was a mathematician and statistician, she was asked by the British secretary of war to join a nursing service during The Crimean War. [5]
It includes some 17th- and 18th-century mathematicians and polymaths whose work is regarded as influential in shaping ... Florence Nightingale (1909–1993) Davidian ...
Florence Nightingale David, also known as F. N. David (23 August 1909 – 23 July 1993) was an English statistician.She was head of the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside between 1970 – 77 and her research interests included the history of probability and statistical ideas.
1858: Florence Nightingale became the first female member of the Royal Statistical Society. [10] 1873: Sarah Woodhead of Britain became the first woman to take the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos Exam, which she passed. [11] 1874: Russian mathematician Sofya Kovalevskaya became the first woman to earn a doctorate (in the modern sense) in ...
The letter by Florence Nightingale (Andrew Matthews/PA) “It is a remarkable find and is completely unspoiled, despite spending the last 140 years in an old scrapbook which belonged to the famed ...
Statistics is the theory and application of mathematics to the scientific method including hypothesis generation, experimental design, sampling, data collection, data summarization, estimation, prediction and inference from those results to the population from which the experimental sample was drawn.
Sofia Kovalevskaya (1850–1891), Russian mathematician (partial differential equations, rotating solids, Abelian functions) [1]: 162 Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace (1815–1851), British mathematician [1]: 180 Emilie Martin (1869–1936), American mathematician; Florence Nightingale (1820–1910), British statistician and nurse