John Colson

John Colson

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name = John Colson


birth_date = 1680
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death_date = 1760, aged 80
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nationality = United Kingdom
field = Mathematics
work_institutions = University of Cambridge
alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
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Johnathan 'John' Colson (1680–1760) was a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. He was an undergraduate at Christ Church, Oxford, but did not take a degree. He produced several of Isaac Newton's works including "De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum" in English in 1736.

ee also

Method of Fluxions

References

*cite web | author=Robert Bruen | title=Lucasian Chair: John Colson | url=http://www.lucasianchair.org/18/colson.html | work=Lucasian Chair.org | publisher=Cambridge University | date=2008 | accessdate=2008-04-02


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