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Francis Ysidro Edgeworth
Irish economist (1845–1926)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 8 February 1845
- Died
- 13 February 1926
- Place of birth
- Edgeworthstown
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Edgeworth
- Mother
- Rosa Florentina Eroles
- Occupation
- economist, statistician, lawyer, mathematician, barrister
- Position held
- president of the Royal Statistical Society, editor, Drummond Professor of Political Economy
- birth name
- Ysidro Francis Edgeworth
- contributed to creative work
- Dictionary of National Biography
- described by source
- Nordisk familjebok, BEIC Digital Library, Thom's Irish Who's Who, Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886, Men-at-the-Bar
- educated at
- University of Oxford, Trinity College, Dublin
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- member of
- Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, British Academy, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Royal Statistical Society
- notable work
- Mathematical Psychics, Edgeworth box, Bertrand–Edgeworth model, Edgeworth's limit theorem, Edgeworth series, Edgeworth paradox, New and Old Methods of Ethics
- place of burial
- Holywell Cemetery
- writing language
- English
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