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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (8 de fevereiro de 1845 - 13 de fevereiro de 1926) foi um filósofo e economista político anglo-irlandês que fez contribuições significativas para os métodos estatísticos durante a década de 1880.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth FBA (8 February 1845 – 13 February 1926) was an Anglo-Irish philosopher and political economist who made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s.
Passou a ensinar lógica (1880), escreveu Psíquica Matemática (1881) e, finalmente (1888), foi nomeado professor de economia política no King's College, de Londres. Seus primeiros escritos eram ...
mathematics. ethics. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (born February 8, 1845, Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Ireland—died February 13, 1926, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England) was an Irish economist and statistician who innovatively applied mathematics to the fields of economics and statistics.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, an Irishman educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Oxford, made several important contributions to economics and statistics in the late nineteenth century.
In his “Mathematical Psychics: an Essay on the Application of Mathematics to the Moral Sciences”, published in 1881, Edgeworth designed what is now known as an Edgeworth box, which basically allows us to compare two mathematical functions represented as curves using the same axis.
Learn about Edgeworth, a professor at King’s College London and a friend of Jevons, who developed the indifference curve and contributed to mathematical statistics. Find out where he lived and walked with Jevons on Hampstead Heath.
