Adolphe Quetelet: Statistician and Founder of Social Physics Early Life:Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet was born on February 22, 1796, in Ghent, which was part of the Austrian Netherlands (now Belgium). Raised in a well-educated family, Quetelet displayed an early interest in mathematics and astronomy. His father, François-Augustin Quetelet, was a Frenchman who had settled in… Continue reading Biography of Famous Mathematicians Adolphe Quetelet