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The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.
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)