John Farey
John Farey, Sr. (born 1766 in Woburn , Bedfordshire , † January 6, 1826 in London ) was an English geologist. Today he is best known for the Farey series named after him , which he examined in an article in Philosophical Magazine in 1816.
Life
John Farey was in Halifax in the county of Yorkshire trained. After completing his training, he moved to London and married Sophia Hubert there. Their first child, John Farey Jr., was born in 1791, and they later had eight other children, two of whom died shortly after birth. John Farey began working for the fifth Duke of Bedford on his estate in Woburn in 1792. After the Duke's death, he moved back to London. There he became secretary of the Smithfield Club in 1805 as successor to Arthur Young. His work as a geologist and surveyor was sought after by many landowners across England, and his geological work was important in locating and developing new coal seams and mineral fields which were in great demand due to industrialization.
John Farey was a prolific writer and, according to recent research, wrote over 270 publications, although the Royal Society's catalog of scientific publications lists only about a quarter of them. He was the author of many articles in Rees' Cyclopedia (lexicon and dictionary) and authored the three volume General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire .
literature
- Farey, John . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 10 : Evangelical Church - Francis Joseph I . London 1910, p. 176 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
Web links
- John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson : John Farey. In: MacTutor History of Mathematics archive .
Individual evidence
- ^ TD Ford, HS Torrens: A Farey Story: the pioneer geologist John Farey (1766-1826). In: Geology Today. Blackwell Science, Vol. 17, No. 2, 2001, pp. 59-68.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farey, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farey, John Sr.; Farey, John Sr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English geologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1766 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Woburn |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1826 |
| Place of death | London |