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Vilfredo Pareto
Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto was an Italian polymath, whose areas of interest included sociology, civil engineering, economics, political science, and philosophy. He made several important contributions to economics, particularly in the study of income distribution and in the analysis of individuals' choices, and was one of the minds behind the Lausanne School of economics. He was also responsi…
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science · Italian polymath (1848–1923) · economist · philosopher · sociologist · university teacher · engineer · mathematician · also Vilfredo Pareto, Vilfredo Federico Damaso Pareto, Wilfried Fritz Pareto, Pareto
Born 15 July 1848 · Died 19 August 1923 · Q11031
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2023· 1 entry
Published “Association of Early Progression Independent of Relapse Activity With Long-term Disability After a First Demyelinating Event in Multiple Sclerosis” in JAMA Neurology — cited 241 times.
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2021· 1 entry
Published “Generic acquisition protocol for quantitative MRI of the spinal cord” in Nature Protocols — cited 151 times.
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2020· 1 entry
Published “MAGNIMS consensus recommendations on the use of brain and spinal cord atrophy measures in clinical practice” in Nature Reviews Neurology — cited 260 times.
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2017· 1 entry
Published “Improving automated multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation with a cascaded 3D convolutional neural network approach” in NeuroImage — cited 348 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “On a Generalized Non-compensatory Composite Index for Measuring Socio-economic Phenomena” in Social Indicators Research — cited 281 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Consensus recommendations for MS cortical lesion scoring using double inversion recovery MRI” in Neurology — cited 281 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Published “Proving the correctness of reactive systems using sized types” in Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages - POPL '96 — cited 190 times.
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1964· 1 entry
Published “Cours d'économie politique” — cited 415 times.
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1923· 2 entries
Died 1923-08-19.
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Married Jeanne Regis, a French woman, just before his death in Geneva, Switzerland, on 19 August 1923
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1906· 1 entry
Made the famous observation that twenty per cent of the population owned eighty per cent of the property in Italy, later generalised by Joseph M
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1897· 1 entry
Published “The New Theories of Economics” in Journal of Political Economy — cited 150 times.
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1893· 1 entry
Pareto succeeded Léon Walras to the chair of Political Economy at the University of Lausanne in Switzerland where he remained for the rest of his life
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1889· 2 entries
After the death of his parents, Pareto changed his lifestyle, quitting his job and marrying a Russian woman, Alessandrina Bakunina
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Pareto married Alessandrina Bakunina, a Russian woman
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1886· 1 entry
Became a lecturer on economics and management at the University of Florence
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1869· 1 entry
Earned a doctorate in engineering from what is now the Polytechnic University of Turin, then known as the Technical School for Engineers, with a dissertation entitled "The Fundamental Principles of Equilibrium in Soli
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1848· 1 entry
Born 1848-07-15.
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