John Blissard
(1803-1875)
Father of English mathematician
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John Blissard (23 May 1803—10 December 1875) was a Church of England vicar, educator, and mathematician who invented what came to be known as the umbral calculus. Despite never holding a university post, Blissard wrote actively on mathematics during the 1860s when he was in his late fifties and early sixties, publishing mostly in the Cambridge-based Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
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23 May 1803 Northampton
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10 December 1875 (aged 72)
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| Zodiac | Gemini |
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