William Schooling
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Sir William Schooling KBE FRAS FSS (16 December 1860 – 18 February 1936) was a British expert on insurance and statistics. He was named a CBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours and a KBE in 1920 for his work with the War Savings Committee.[1] Schooling was the editor of Bourne's Directory, a listing of British insurance companies, and the author of several books on insurance[2] and on the history of the Hudson's Bay Company.[3]
With Mark Barr, he also did pioneering work on the mathematics of the golden ratio.[4]
References
- ↑ "Sir William Schooling", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 97 (4): 280–281, 1937, doi:10.1093/mnras/97.4.280a, Bibcode: 1937MNRAS..97R.280..
- ↑ The Forester, vol. 23 (1902), p. 13.
- ↑ Simmons, Deidre (2007), Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, McGill-Queen's Press, p. 7, ISBN 9780773560499, https://books.google.com/books?id=y7pT8yTwbnsC&pg=PA7.
- ↑ The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science and to Art: with the special reference to the manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Constable, 1914, p. ix, ISBN 9780486237015, https://books.google.com/books?id=ulT8DQAAQBAJ&pg=PR9.
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