William playfair mathematician
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Playfair, William
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William PLAYFAIR
b. 22 September 1759 - d. 11 February 1823
Summary. William Playfair, engineer, political economist and scoundrel, was the most important developer of statistical graphics. In the two centuries since, there has been no appreciable improvement on his basic designs.
William Playfair was born at Liff in Scotland during the Enlightenment - a Golden Age in the arts, sciences
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William Henry Playfair lived from 15 July 1790 to 19 March 1857. He was one of the most influential Scottish architects of the 1800s and played a leading role in shaping the Edinburgh we see today. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
William Henry Playfair was born in London. His father was the Scottish architect James Playfair, and as a boy he moved to Edinburgh to live with his uncle, the scientist and mathematician, Professor John Playfair. Another of his uncles was the engineer and inventor of statistical graphics, William Playfair.
After qualifying as an architect in Edinburgh, Playfair rapidly built a successful practice. In 1817 he won a competition to finished the work begun by Robert Adam designing the University of Edinburgh Old College, the resulting building emerging during the 1820s. In 1818 he was commissioned to
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William Playfair lived from 22 September 1759 to 11 February 1823. He was an engineer and political economist remembered primarily for his innovations in the föredrag of quantitative information bygd means of graphs and charts. He invented the time series graph or line chart, the bar chart, and the pie chart. The wider picture in Scotland at the time fryst vatten set out in our Historical Timeline.
William Playfair was the fourth and youngest son of the Reverend James Playfair, minister of the parish of Liff and Benvie nära Dundee. After the death of his father he was looked after bygd his oldest brother, who went on to become Professor John Playfair, Professor of Mathematics and later Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Another of his brothers was the architect James Playfair, father to William's nära namesake, the even better known architect, William Henry Playfair.
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