Mathematician:Edward Waring

c. 1736 - 1798

English mathematician mainly active in the fields of number theory and analysis.

Most famous for posing what are now called:
 * Waring's Problem;
 * Waring's Prime Number Conjecture, otherwise known as the Goldbach Conjecture.

"Waring was one of the profoundest mathematicians of the eighteenth century; but the inelegance and obscurity of his writings prevented him from obtaining that reputation to which he was entitled." -- Thomas Thomson.

Nationality
English

History

 * Born: c. 1736
 * Died: 15 August 1798

Problems posed

 * Waring's Problem
 * Waring's Prime Number Conjecture

Books and Papers

 * "Miscellanea Analytica" (1759)
 * "Meditationes Algebraicae" (a second edition of "Miscellanea Analytica") (1762)
 * "Proprietates Algebraicarum Curvarum" (1772)"
 * "An Essay on the Principles of Human Knowledge" (1794)"