William Esson

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William Esson (* 1838 in Dundee , Scotland, † August 28, 1916 in Abingdon (Oxfordshire) , England) was a British mathematician.

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William Esson attended Inverness Royal Academie and Celtenham Grammer School. From 1855 studied at the University of Oxford and graduated in 1864 to the MA

In 1864/66 he published his pioneering work Transactions on mathematical chemistry, on which he worked with Augustus George Vernon Harcourt (1834-1919). In 1866 he became a member of the London Mathematical Society and on June 3, 1869 Fellow of the Royal Society .

After Professor James Joseph Sylvester fell ill, he became associate professor in 1894 and, after his death in 1897, full professor of geometry and Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford University.

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  • On the Laws of Connexion between the Conditions of a Chemical Change and Its Amount . In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society . Volume 156, 1866, pp. 193-221 ( doi: 10.1098 / rstl.1866.0010 ) - with Augustus George Vernon Harcourt

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://plms.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/s2-15/1/1-c
  2. ^ Journal of the Chemical Society, Transactions, published from 1878-1925, p. 332
  3. ^ William H. Brock: Viewegs Geschichte der Chemie. P. 341 ( digitized version )

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SURNAME Esson, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 1838
PLACE OF BIRTH Dundee
DATE OF DEATH August 28, 1916
Place of death Abingdon (Oxfordshire)