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Edward Waring
Edward Waring
(15 August 1798) was an English mathematician. He entered
Magdalene College, Cambridge
as a
sizar
and became
Senior wrangler
in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760
Lucasian Professor of Mathematics
, holding the chair until his death. He made the assertion known as
Waring's problem
without proof in his writings
Meditationes Algebraicae
. Waring was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society
in 1763 and awarded the
Copley Medal
in 1784.
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