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“The best therapy for emotional blocks to math is the realization that the human race took centuries or millennia to see through the mist of difficulties and paradoxes which instructors now invite us to solve in a few minutes.”

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Lancelot Hogben

Lancelot Hogben was a prominent British statistician born on December 9, 1895, and died on August 22, 1975. He had a significant impact on the field of statistics, particularly in biostatistics and demographic statistics. more

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