Edward Waring

1736 - 1798

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Waring gave many results about decomposing numbers into sums of powers and sums of primes.
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List of References (11 books/articles)

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Honours awarded to Edward Waring
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Lucasian Professor 1760
Fellow of the Royal Society1763
Royal Society Copley Medal1784


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