John Colson
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John Colson FRS (1680 – 20 January 1760) was an English clergyman, mathematician, and the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University.
Life
John Colson was educated at Lichfield School before becoming an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, though he did not complete a degree there. He became a schoolmaster at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1713. He was Vicar of Chalk, Kent from 1724 to 1740. He relocated to Cambridge and lectured at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. From 1739 to 1760, he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was also Rector of Lockington, Yorkshire.[1]
Works
In 1726 he published his "Negativo-Affirmativo Arithmetik", which advocated a modified decimal system of numeration.[2] He proposed "reduction [to] small figures" by "throwing all the large figures out of a given number, and introducing in their room the equivalent small figures respectively". This method of signifying numbers is now called signed-digit representation.[3]
John Colson translated several of Isaac Newton's works into English, including De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum in 1736.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
See also
Notes
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Colson, John (CL728J2)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ John Colson (1726) "A Short Account of Negativo-Affirmativo Arithmetik", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 34:161–73. Available as Early Journal Content from JSTOR
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Cajori, Florian (1993) [1928-1929]. A History of Mathematical Notations. Dover Publications. p. 57. ISBN 978-0486677668.
References
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robert Bruen (2008). "Lucasian Chair: John Colson". Lucasian Chair.org. Cambridge University. Archived from the original on 29 December 2007. Retrieved 2 April 2008.
- "A Brief History of The Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge University" – Robert Bruen, Boston College, May 1995
External links
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