Mathematician:William Spence
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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
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