Karl Pearson sesquicentenary conference
Friday 23 March 2007 Royal Statistical Society 12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX	A joint meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, the British Society for the History of Mathematics, and the British Society for the History of Science

A one day conference to celebrate the 150^th birthday of the Victorian mathematician, Karl Pearson (1857-1936) who established the discipline of mathematical statistics.

Organiser

Dr Eileen Magnello

Speakers include

Mr John Aldrich	Dr Chris Pritchard
Dr June Barrow-Green	Professor Stephen Stigler
Dr Eileen Magnello	Professor A. W. F. Edwards

For summaries of talks go here. For details, booking form and map go here.

London places of interest

• The City: The area around Errol Street, the conference venue, is full of interest for the early history of statistics. Bayes’ tomb is probably the highlight. Consult the Economists’ Walk 4: City of London. (Produced for the World Congress of the Econometric Society 2005.)

• Hampstead: For much of his life Pearson lived in Hampstead in North London and so, as a child, did R. A. Fisher. Consult the Economists’ Walk 5: Hampstead: which takes in the homes of Jevons, Edgeworth and Marx as well as those of Pearson and Fisher.

More generally see David Singmaster’s BSHM Gazetteer of London and Ian Preston’s London and the Early History of Economics and Statistics. (Produced for the World Congress of the Econometric Society.)