Boulevard Solitude
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Boulevard Solitude. Opera in 7 scenes by
Henze to lib. by comp. G. Weil after W. Jöckisch's play, being modernized version of Prévost's
Manon Lescaut (1731). Comp. 1951. Prod. Hanover 1952, London (SW) 1962, Santa Fe 1967.
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New findings from Baylor College of Medicine, College of Medicine in the area of obesity described.
Newspaper article from: Health & Medicine Week; 3/24/2008; 700+ words
; ...square of the height in meters, or the Quetelet Index described in 1832." "Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) was a Belgian mathematician...in Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) - the average man and indices...
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COLUMN: Belgians and body mass
News Wire article from: University Wire; 10/8/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Renaissance man by the name of Adolphe Quetelet began crafting a statistical ratio...physics for the masses? Well, Quetelet created his own line of "social...they teach in Physics 10. Now, Quetelet's metaphorical average dude is...
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THE POLITICS OF LARGE NUMBERS: A HISTORY OF STATISTICAL REASONING.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues; 12/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...This debate was a central focus of AdoLphe Quetelet who, in the 1830s and 1840s...notion of an "average man." Quetelet saw a regularity in the distributions...with physical characteristics. Quetelet's insights were to have immediate...
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A LOOK AT . . . The Meaning of Numbers: When Seven andThree Equals Nine
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/27/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...century was the Belgian astronomer Adolphe Quetelet, who came to Paris in 1823 to...the apparent positions of stars. Quetelet envisioned a discipline called...to forms of moral abnormality. Quetelet's statistical laws implied an...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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History of statistics - A mean world.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 7/15/2000; 700+ words
; ...taken by a Belgian scientist, Adolphe Quetelet, who in 1831 created l'homme moyen, or the average man. Quetelet had begun as an astronomer, but...represent a group. For instance, Quetelet could take the average height and...
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Web spins useful data occasionally
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 1/17/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...Ceulemans, 17 times world champion in billiards Adolphe Quetelet, mathematician and inventor of the Body Mass Index...song "Dominique" Although I'll always think of "Adolphe Quetelet" whenever I have my body fat measured from now on...
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LIVING XX-LARGE; Body Mass Index: A number tells the tale.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 2/8/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of what is overweight or obese. The index was developed in 1835 by Belgian statistician Adolphe Quetelet to calculate body volume. Then called the Quetelet Index, it was little used until the 1970s, when it was renamed the Body Mass Index by...
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Richards has athleticism
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 8/25/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Lifestyle Section: EPL A BELGIAN scientist named Adolphe Quetelet thought that Ahe had found the perfect way to assess...and weighing in at 13st, Richards is overweight by Quetelet's reckoning, but, this is one bulky teenager who...
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The History of Statistics: The Measurement of Uncertainty Before 1900. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: Monthly Labor Review; 5/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...Stigler documents. In the early 1800's, LaPlace and Adolphe Quetelet argued vigorously for estimating population in France...provinces. Keverberg's argument, which won over Quetelet, is strikingly similar to the complaints of those...
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Social Science and Probabilistic Analysis in Physics
Magazine article from: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...enough of the middle passages on Laplace, Poisson, Quetelet, and Cournot. The central point, however, was the...s account in the Edinburgh Review for June 1850 of Adolphe Quetelet's Theory of Probability as Applied to the Moral and...
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Quetelet, Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
QUETELET, LAMBERT-ADOLPHE-JACQUES ( b. Ghent, Belgium, 22 February 1796; d . Brussels, Belgium, 17 February 1874) statistics. Adolphe Quetelet was the son of Fran ς ois-Augustin-Jacques-Henri Quetelet...
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Adolphe Quetelet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Adolphe Quetelet , 1796-1874, Belgian statistician and astronomer. He was the first director (1828) of the Royal Observatory at Brussels...
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Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques
Book article from: A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition
Quetelet, Lambert Adolphe Jacques (1796–1874) Belgian statistician; first developed the index of weight/height 2 ; now usually called body mass index, but also known as Quetelet's index.
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ugliness
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Body
...1857. The French statistician Adolphe Quetelet (1796–1847) contributed...Deviations from the mean constituted, Quetelet observed, ugliness of the body...1822–1911). Where Quetelet considered any deviation from the...
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Dandelin, Germinal Pierre
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...spirit as his Belgian colleague Adolphe Quetelet. The theorem named for him, of...Lobachevski. There are also papers in Quetelet ’ s Correspondance math...Literature. A biography is A. Quetelet, “ C. P. Dandelin...
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