Edgeworth
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Edgeworth may refer to:
- People
- Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845–1926), Irish statistician and economist
- Henry Essex Edgeworth (1745–1807), Catholic priest and confessor of Louis XVI
- Maria Edgeworth (1767–1849), novelist
- Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744–1817), writer and inventor, father of Maria Edgeworth
- Kenneth Essex Edgeworth (1880–1972), Irish astronomer, economist and engineer — best known for proposing the existence of a disc of icy bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune in the 1940s in much the same manner as Gerard Kuiper would publish ten years later.
- Joseph Gerrad Edgeworth (1974– ), welder and football player
- Miles Edgeworth, fictional prosecutor in the video game Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.
- Places
- Edgeworth, Gloucestershire, England
- Edgeworth, New South Wales, Australia
- Edgeworth, Pennsylvania, USA
- Edgeworthstown, County Longford, Republic of Ireland
[edit] See also
- Edgeworth conjecture on the relation of the core and the Walrasian equilibria
- Edgeworth series of higher-order asymptotic expansions for probability densities.