William Spence (mathematician)

For other people named William Spence, see William Spence (disambiguation).

William Spence
Born31 July 1777
Greenock, Scotland
Died20 May 1815 (aged 37)
Glasgow, Scotland
Parents
  • Ninian Spence (father)
  • Sarah Townsend (mother)
Notes
A D D Craik, The 'Mathematical Essays' of William Spence (1777–1815), Historia Mathematica 40: 4 (2013), 386–422. Image accredited to the Watt Institute, Inverclyde Council

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.