John Wilson
In the autumn of 1793, John Wilson died in Kendal, closing a life that had moved between the disciplines of mathematics, law, and politics with uncommon range. He was born on 6 August 1741 in Applethwaite, Westmorland, and would carry something of that northern English formation through each of his later pursuits.
Wilson received his early education at Staveley CofE School before going on to study at Peterhouse, Cambridge. His time in Cambridge sharpened the mathematical aptitude for which he would become most formally recognized. It was during this period that the number-theoretic result now bearing his name — Wilson's theorem — came to be associated with him, a proposition concerning prime numbers that entered the broader mathematical record under his authorship.
His career did not remain confined to academic mathematics. Wilson served as both a politician and a jurist, eventually holding the position of judge — a trajectory that took him from the theoretical concerns of pure mathematics into the practical administration of law. As a citizen of the Kingdom of Great Britain, he operated within institutions that were themselves in a period of considerable change, and his movement across such distinct professional domains reflects the range of roles available to educated men of his era and standing. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, a recognition that acknowledged his contributions to scientific and intellectual life.
Wilson died on 18 October 1793 in Kendal, not far from the Westmorland landscape where he had begun. His Fellowship of the Royal Society stands as the institutional marker of how his contemporaries received his intellectual work, and Wilson's theorem itself — carrying his name into subsequent centuries of mathematical study — remains the concrete fact that links him to the record of the discipline he once practiced.
Quotes by John Wilson
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold.
All three victims are stating that they don't remember being told that they have to buy something, but that's what the company states, that they're selling something. Two of them felt intimidated, that they were pressured, and like they needed to give up their bank information.
You don't have to know people personally for them to be role models. Some of my most important role models were historical or literary figures that I only read about - never actually met.
This is a company that dominates their part of the industry, ... Everybody that has a computer probably has an Adobe product on it, and the stock has done well and has held up nicely.
You could see he still had some goods left. I hope I can still do that when I'm his age.
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries all about. Where I may read at all my ease both of the new and old, For a jolly good book whereon to look is better to me than gold
In the medley relay and coming out of the second heat we really had no competition to get pushed. Besides that, setting a time that put us into states was really the key thing there.