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John Wilson (English judge)

John Wilson (English judge)

English mathematician (1741–1793)

For the Scottish mathematician (1847–1896), see John Wilson (Scottish mathematician).
For other people named John Wilson, see John Wilson (disambiguation).

Sir John Wilson (6 August 1741, Applethwaite, Westmorland – 18 October 1793, Kendal, Westmorland)[1] was an English mathematician and judge. Wilson's theorem is named after him.

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Wilson attended school in Staveley, Cumbria before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1757,[2] where he was a student of Edward Waring. He was Senior Wrangler in 1761.[2] He was later knighted, and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1782. He was Judge of Common Pleas from 1786 until his death in 1793.

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Notes

  1. [1]
    Robinson (2003), p. 50.
  2. [2]
    "Wilson, John (WL757J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.

References

  • C. M. Neale (1907) The Senior Wranglers of the University of Cambridge. Available online
  • Robinson, Derek John Scott. An introduction to abstract algebra. 2003. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-017544-8


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