FlorenceNightingale
Last edit April 25, 2002FlorenceNightingale - inventor of the Pie Chart, and the use of statistics. Also a nurse or something.
Not quite the inventor. See this link for details http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/historical.html
She actually used [and invented?] a type of pie-chart known as a coxcomb:
Not quite the inventor. See this link for details http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/historical.html
She actually used [and invented?] a type of pie-chart known as a coxcomb: