Lucien March (6 December 1859 – 4 April 1933) was a French demographer, statistician, and engineer.
In 1878 Lucien March enrolled in l'
École polytechnique and after graduation in 1880
[ served in the naval artillery corps.][ He was the director of the (SGF) from 1896 to 1920. In 1896, he introduced Hollerith punched card tabulating machines into France and later invented an improved machine, the classifier-counter-printer, which was used until the 1940s. He also arranged a sorting process using the workplace addresses of the people counted in the French population census to generate valuable economic data and labor statistics.
He was an invited speaker of the ]International Congress of Mathematicians
The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU).
The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...
(ICM) in Rome (1908), Toronto (1924), and Bologna (1928).
In 1912, upon his return from an international congress on eugenics, held in London, March helped to found a French eugenics society, which published in 1922 , a collection of essays on eugenics. In the 1920s he played an important role in the International Federation of Eugenics Organizations.
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Lucien March (1859–1933): Inventeur du métier moderne de statisticiens
INSEE
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French engineers
French statisticians
1859 births
1933 deaths