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See also:WALLACE, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
WILLIAM (1768-1843) , Scottish mathematician, was See also:born on the 23rd of See also:September 1768 at See also:Dysart in Fifeshire, where he received his school See also:education. In 1784 his See also:family removed to See also:Edinburgh, where he himself was set to learn the See also:trade of a bookbinder; but his See also:taste for See also:mathematics had already See also:developed itself, and he made such use of his leisure See also:hours that before the completion of his See also:apprenticeship he had made considerable acquirements in See also:geometry, See also:algebra and See also:astronomy. He was further assisted in his studies by See also:John Robison (1739-1805) and John See also:Playfair, to whom his abilities had become known. After various changes of situation, dictated mainly by a See also:desire to gain See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time for study, he became assistant teacher of mathematics in the See also:academy of See also:Perth in 1794, and this See also:post he exchanged in 1803 for a mathematical mastership in the Royal Military See also:College at See also:Great See also:Marlow (afterwards at See also:Sandhurst). In 1819 he was chosen to succeed John See also:Leslie in the See also:chair of mathematics at Edinburgh, and in 1838, when compelled by See also:ill-See also:health to retire, he received a See also:government See also:pension for See also:life. He died in Edinburgh on the 28th of See also:April 1843.
In his earlier years Wallace was an occasional contributor to Leybourne's Mathematical Repository and the See also:Gentleman's Mathematical See also:Companion. Between 1801 and 18ro he contributed articles on " Algebra," " Conic Sections," " See also:Trigonometry," and several others in mathematical and See also:physical See also:science to the See also:fourth edition of the See also:Encyclopaedia Britannica, and some of these were retained in subsequent See also:editions from the fifth to the eighth inclusive. He was also the author of the See also:principal mathematical articles in the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia, edited by See also:David See also:Brewster (1808–1830). He also contributed many important papers to the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
See Transactions of the See also:Roy. See also:Ast. See also:Soc., 1844.
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