Quote of the day
There are no countries in the world less known by the British than these selfsame British Islands, or where more strange things are every day occurring.
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)