Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Karl Pearson across 7 places, from 1880 to 1936.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Karl Pearson (born Carl Pearson; 27 March 1857 – 27 April 1936) was an English biostatistician and mathematician.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Karl Pearson was documented, and when
1880year
Londonattested“He wrote to his mother, "I used to think athletics and sport was overestimated at Cambridge, but now I think it cannot be too highly valued." On returning to England in 1880, Pearson first went to Cambridge: In his first book, The New We…”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
1880year
Cambridgeattested“He wrote to his mother, "I used to think athletics and sport was overestimated at Cambridge, but now I think it cannot be too highly valued." On returning to England in 1880, Pearson first went to Cambridge: In his first book, The New We…”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
1880year
Englandattested“He wrote to his mother, "I used to think athletics and sport was overestimated at Cambridge, but now I think it cannot be too highly valued." On returning to England in 1880, Pearson first went to Cambridge: In his first book, The New We…”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
1881year
Inner Templeattested“Quoting Pearson's own account: His next career move was to the Inner Temple, where he read law until 1881 (although he never practised).”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
1881 to 1883period
University College Londonattested“After this, he returned to mathematics, deputising for the mathematics professor at King's College, London in 1881 and for the professor at University College London in 1883.”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
1881 to 1883period
King's College, Londonattested“After this, he returned to mathematics, deputising for the mathematics professor at King's College, London in 1881 and for the professor at University College London in 1883.”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
27 April 1936exact date
Coldharbour, Surreyattested“He died at Coldharbour, Surrey, on 27 April 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
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1884year
University College Londonmentioned“In 1884, he was appointed to the Goldsmid Chair of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics at University College London.”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
1891year
Gresham Collegementioned“1891 saw him also appointed to the professorship of Geometry at Gresham College; here he met Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, a zoologist who had some interesting problems requiring quantitative solutions.”source: Wikipedia: Karl Pearson
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