Achenwall is the man noted to be the first to introduce the word “statistics” (1719-1772) * Zimmerman and Sinclair introduced and popularized the name “statistics” in their books * The method of least squares was first described by Carl Friedrich Gauss around 1794 19th Century * Laplace’s “Theories Analytique des Probabilities” of 1812 further supported and stabilized the said theory. * The meaning of “statistics” broadened‚ then including the discipline concerned with the collection
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Physical education In most educational systems‚ physical education (PE)‚ (also called physical training (PT) or gym)‚ is a course which utilizes a play or movement exploration setting for the transmission of physical knowledge and skills to an individual or a group‚ the application of these skills‚ and their results. It also can refer to any intramural or extracurricular sportor physical activity students take part of through their school system. It should be noted that unlike other curricula‚ a
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use Nietzsche’s words to validate their ideas. The discussion of the "nobleness" of the "blond beast" could be twisted by any halfwit and made into racist ideology‚ even though Nietzsche had not the slightest penchant for such ideals. The second great influence of Nietzsche on Hitler was the idea of the superman. Nietzsche believed that certain people of the noble morality could rise above the pettiness of existence and live as a race of supermen. This idea of the superman fed Hitler’s idea of
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Fashion and its Sense of Place Landscape was the first photographic genre‚ but how influential is it in contemporary fashion? Photographic genres are forever blurring and more than ever we are seeing photographs from fashion shoots ending up in prestigious galleries. My own work is heavily influenced by the use of people within the landscape‚ and while I am starting to experiment with fashion within different landscapes. This essay gives me the chance to explore the history of people within landscapes
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credit union is a cooperative financial institution that is owned and controlled by its members and operated for the purpose of promoting thrift‚ providing credit at reasonable rates‚ and providing other financial services to its members. In 1864 Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen founded the first rural credit union in Heddesdorf‚ Germany. In 1934‚ Congress passed the Federal Credit Union Act‚ which permitted credit unions to be organized anywhere in the United States. My interpretation of “people
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which "Sherlock Holmes clambered alone to the top of a Dartmoor mound and surveyed the landscape below‚ it appeared to be a direct visual reference to ... Wanderer above the Sea of Fog" by 19th century German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich. Harvey also identified several references to Thomas Harris’ character Hannibal Lecter‚ plot similarities to the 2005 film Batman Begins‚ and jokes similar to Scooby Doo.[25] Sam Wollaston‚ for The Guardian‚ favourably compared "The Hounds of Baskerville"
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Sophie Germain Sophie Germain was a mathematician‚ who posed herself as a man because young women were not supposed to be taught math. Sophie Germain was born in Paris‚ France on April 1‚ 1776 to Ambroise-Francios Germain and Marie-Madeleine Germain (Lewis). She had one older sister and one younger sister. Sophie Germain full name is Marie-Sophie Germain. She changed her name to Sophie because in her family her older sister and her mother both had Marie has their first name. At the age of thirteen
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2012PGP077 Raghuveer 2012PGP067 Sukhada Vijendra 2012PGP089 2012PGP109 Vikash 2012PGP110 Masters of money Masters of Money is a short TV series produced by BBC about three men whom it referred to as masters of money: Karl Marx‚ Friedrich Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. M asters of Money - P art I – J ohn Keynes The first in the series is about John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946). He was an alumnus of Eton and went to Cambridge. The documentary series covers his progress from there
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The Reader’s Digest condensed version of The Road to Serfdom The Road to Serfdom FRIEDRICH A. HAYEK The condensed version of The Road to Serfdom by F. A. Hayek as it appeared in the April 1945 edition of Reader’s Digest The Institute of Economic Affairs First published in Great Britain in 1999 in the ‘Rediscovered Riches’ series by The Institute of Economic Affairs 2 Lord North Street Westminster London sw1p 3lb Reissued in the ‘Occasional Paper’ series in 2001 This condensed version
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differential geometry‚ geodesy‚ magnetism‚ astronomy‚ and optics‚ as well as many more. The concepts that he himself created have had an immense influence in many areas of the mathematic and scientific world. Carl Gauss was born Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss‚ on the thirtieth of April‚ 1777‚ in Brunswick‚ Duchy of Brunswick (now Germany). Gauss was born into an impoverished family‚ raised as the only son of a bricklayer. Despite the hard living conditions‚ Gauss’s brilliance shone through at a
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