Edward Waring
(1736-1798)
British scientist
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Edward Waring FRS (c. – 15 August 1798) was a British mathematician. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar and became Senior wrangler in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, holding the chair until his death. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Waring was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763 and awarded the Copley Medal in 1784.
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1 January 1736 Old Heath, Shropshire, England, UK
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15 August 1798 (aged 62) Plealey, Pontesbury, Shropshire, England
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| Zodiac | Capricorn |
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