Mathematician:William Spence

Mathematician
Scottish mathematician who worked on logarithmic functions.

Nationality
Scottish

History

 * Born: 31 July 1777 in Greenock, Scotland
 * Died: 22 May 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland

Theorems and Definitions

 * Spence's Function

Publications

 * 1808: An Essay on the various Orders of logarithmic Transcendents; with an Inquiry into their Applications to the Integral Calculus, and the Summation of Series
 * 1814: Outlines of a theory of algebraical equations: deduced from the principles of Harriot, and extended to the fluxional or differential calculus