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History of 6σ?

• Carl Friedrich Gauss was a German

mathematician and physicist who lived in

the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

• He worked on statistics and probability

theory that laid the foundation for many

of the statistical methods and tools used

in Six Sigma today.

• One of Gauss's most important

contributions to statistics is the concept

of the normal distribution, also known as
the Gaussian distribution.