John Colson FRS (1680 – 20 January 1760) was an English clergyman, mathematician, and the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. John...
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Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who...
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Arch Colson Chipp Whitehead (born November 6, 1969) is an American novelist. He is the author of nine novels, including his 1999 debut The Intuitionist;...
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Colson is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Audrey Butt Colson (born 1926), British social anthropologist Bonzie...
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versoria (sheet of sailing ships) and the sinus versus. This was read by John Colson as l’avversiera di Agnesi, where avversiera is translated as "woman who...
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Quanta Services (section Colson and PAR)
on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol PWR. In 1997, John R. Colson founded Quanta Services and is a former executive chairman. After earning...
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Non-standard analysis Newton's method Charles Hayes (mathematician) John Landen John Colson Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy Joseph Raphson Time in physics...
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Colson John Smith (born 13 August 1998) is an English actor who is best known for portraying the role of Craig Tinker on the ITV soap opera Coronation...
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Mathematics 9 4 1711 Nicholas Saunderson (1682–1739) Mathematics 28 5 1739 John Colson (1680–1760) Mathematics 21 6 1760 Edward Waring (1736–1798) Mathematics...
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Machine Gun Kelly (musician) (redirect from Colson Baker)
Richard Colson Baker (born April 22, 1990), known professionally as Machine Gun Kelly (MGK, stylized in all lowercase), is an American rapper, singer,...
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States which bear the name Colson House, spanning the century from c. 1800 to 1905. The house of Rev. John Calvin Colson in Middlesboro, Kentucky, is...
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(written in 1671, translated and published as Method of Fluxions in 1736 by John Colson). However, his method differs substantially from the modern method given...
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Related signed-digit schemes in other bases have been discussed by John Colson, John Leslie, Augustin-Louis Cauchy, and possibly even the ancient Indian...
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but published posthumously in 1740 by his widow and children aided by John Colson, the next Lucasian professor. This was used at the Royal Military Academy...
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sign, yielding the signed-digit representation. For instance, in 1726, John Colson advocated reducing expressions to "small numbers", numerals 1, 2, 3,...
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Colorado Hell's Angels Archived December 22, 2021, at the Wayback Machine John Colson, The Aspen Times (November 29, 2005) Man disputes account of fight with...
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Brook Taylor (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
perspective, New Principles of Linear Perspective, which was revised by John Colson in 1749. A French translation was published in 1757. It was reprinted...
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translation of the whole work by John Colson (1680–1760), the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge, "inspected" by John Hellins, was published in 1801...
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representation of numbers, an innovation presented in England in 1727 by John Colson. The confounded membership of the Bureau lasted until the end of 1843...
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older fragments). Also prolific locally were father and son John and John Barnes Colson of Winchester, who were in partnership as architects and who...
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Kevin Colson (28 August 1937 – 18 April 2018) was an Australian stage, film and television actor. He is known for playing Sir George Dillingham in the...
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prehistory to the invention of the computer, Georges Ifrah, ISBN 0-471-39340-1, John Wiley and Sons Inc., New York, 2000. Translated from the French by David...
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John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th...
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Hedge End (redirect from St John's Church, Hedge End)
St. John's Church was consecrated on 15 July 1874 construction having started in 1873 to a design by John Colson. In February 1876, St. John's, Hedge...
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built in 1840 to a design by John Elliott. It was expanded in the late 1850s this time to a design by John Colson. Colson's designs were again used in an...
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John Henry Days is a 2001 novel by American author Colson Whitehead. This is his second full-length work. Building the railways that made America, John...
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John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801...
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Anchant 1827–1829 William Anchant 1830–1843 John Colson Smith 1843–1846 Bruton 1846–1853 Fitzgerald 1853–1871 John Clark 1871–1892 George Griffin 1892–1904...
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The Nickel Boys (category Novels by Colson Whitehead)
The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is based on the historic Dozier School, a reform school in Florida that operated...
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Christian Patrick Colson (born 15 September 1968) is a British film producer. He is best known as the producer of the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, for...
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