Scottish mathematician (1777–1815)
William Spence |
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Born | 31 July 1777
Greenock, Scotland |
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Died | 20 May 1815 (aged 37)
Glasgow, Scotland |
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Parents | - Ninian Spence (father)
- Sarah Townsend (mother)
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A D D Craik, The 'Mathematical Essays' of William Spence (1777–1815), Historia Mathematica 40: 4 (2013), 386–422.
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William Spence (born 31 July 1777 in Greenock, Scotland – died 22 May 1815 in Glasgow, Scotland) was a Scottish mathematician who published works on the fields of logarithmic functions, algebraic equations and their relation to integral and differential calculus respectively.