Mathematician:William Wallace

Mathematician

Scottish mathematician and astronomer best known for the Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwien Theorem.

Nationality

Scottish

History

• Born: 23 September 1768 in Dysart, Scotland
• Died: 28 April 1843 in Edinburgh, Scotland

Theorems and Definitions

• Wallace-Bolyai-Gerwien Theorem (independently of Farkas Wolfgang Bolyai and Karl Ludwig Gerwien) (also known as Bolyai-Gerwien Theorem)

Results named for William Wallace can be found here.

Publications

• 1838: A Geometrical Treatise on the Conic Sections with an Appendix Containing Formulae for their Quadrature
• 1839: Geometrical Theorems and Analytical Formulae with their application to the Solution of Certain Geodetical Problems and an Appendix

Sources

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

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): equidecomposable