Irish-born economist and statistician who received a classical education at Trinity College, Dublin, and Oxford University. He began his academic employment as a lecturer in logic in 1880 and afterwards the Tooke Chair of Political Economy at...

Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (February 8, 1845 - February 13, 1926) made significant contributions to the methods of statistics during the 1880s. From 1891 onward he was the editor of a leading academic journal in economics and his own writings in economics...