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Francis Galton

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    Illuminations

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This resource, from the Illuminations-reviewed History of Mathematics Archive, features biographical information about English mathematician Francis Galton. Galton named the characteristics of fingerprints that could be used as unique identifiers of a person based on grouping the patterns into arches, loops and whorls. Links to biographies of other mathematicians are also available on this page.

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