Quote of the day
I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
A. W. F. Edwards
Born: October 4, 1935 (age 89)
Bio: Anthony William Fairbank Edwards is a British statistician, geneticist, and evolutionary biologist, sometimes called "Fisher's Edwards" because he was mentored by Ronald Fisher.
Known for:
- Cogwheels of the Mind (2004)
- Pascal's arithmetical triangle (1987)
- Foundations of mathematical genetics (1977)
- Nashville Interiors, 1866 to 1922 (1999)
- Likelihood (1972)