Studies in the history of probability and statistics XLII. Further details of contacts between Boscovich and Simpson in June 1760

DOI10.1093/biomet/77.2.397zbMath0731.62003OpenAlexW1977673957MaRDI QIDQ3357256

Richard William Farebrother

Publication date: 1990

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/77.2.397

zbMATH Keywords

linear programmingnonlinear programmingleast absolute deviations regressionPierre de Fermatmedian centreoptical refractionRuggiero BoscovichThomas Simpson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of statistics (62-03)

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