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

Definitions of concepts named for William Spence can be found here.

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

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "William Spence": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive