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Edward Waring
FRS
Waring (ca. 1736–1798). Portrait by Thomas Kerrich, 1794.
Born
c. 1736
Old Heath, Shropshire, England, Kingdom of Great Britain
Died
15 August 1798(1798-08-15) (aged 62)
Plealey, Pontesbury, Shropshire, England
Nationality
British
Alma mater
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Known for
Waring's problem Waring's prime number conjecture
Awards
Copley Medal (1784)
Scientific career
Fields
Mathematics
Institutions
University of Cambridge
Notable students
John Wilson John Dawson
Edward WaringFRS (c. 1736 – 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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