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Edward Waring
(c. 1736 - 15 Aug 1798)
English mathematician who was confirmed as the sixth Lucasian professor at Cambridge at age 23. (Isaac Newton was the second.) Waring was the first to record a method of approximating values for imaginary roots. He also posed Waring's problem concerning decomposition of natural numbers into cubes and biquadratics
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Science Quotes by Edward Waring (1 quote)
Is mihi semper dicendus est inventor, qui primus evuIgaverit, vel saltem cum amicis communicaverit.
I should always call inventor him who first publishes, or at least communicates [the idea] to his friends.
I should always call inventor him who first publishes, or at least communicates [the idea] to his friends.
— Edward Waring
Meditationes Analyticae (1785), ii-iii.
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- 15 Aug - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Waring's death.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
