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Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.
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)