Mathematician:Edward Waring

Mathematician
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.

Nationality
English

History

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

Problems posed

 * Waring's Problem
 * Waring's Prime Number Conjecture
 * Numerator of p-1th Harmonic Number is Divisible by Prime p

Publications

 * 1762:
 * 1770: (a second edition of )
 * 1772: Proprietates Algebraicarum Curvarum
 * 1794: An Essay on the Principles of Human Knowledge

Critical View

 * 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