Quote of the day
It would be a poor thing to be an atom in a world without physicists. And physicists are made of atoms. A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Maurice Kendall

Born: September 6, 1907
Died: March 29, 1983 (aged 75)
Bio: Sir Maurice George Kendall was a British statistician, widely known for his contribution to statistics. The Kendall tau rank correlation is named after him.
Known for:
- Kendall's Advanced Theory of Statistics
- Geometrical probability (1963)
- A Course in the Geometry of N Dimensions (1961)