Edward Waring

Waring was from 1760 Lucasischer until his death professor of mathematics at Cambridge University.

In his work Meditations algebraicae that deals with number theory and geometry, he put on an unproven assertion, which is known as Waringsches problem and is a generalization of the four -square theorem. The validity of the concepts defined by Waring claim could be proved only in 1909 by David Hilbert.

Waring was elected to the Royal Society in 1763 and received its Copley Medal in 1784 awarded.

Works

  • Meditations algebraicae, 1770
1736 Shrewsbury August 15 1798 England Lucasian Professor of Mathematics Lagrange's four-square theorem Integrated Authority File
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