William Esson

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William Esson
Born	1838 Dundee, Scotland
Died	August 28, 1916 (aged 78) Abingdon, Oxfordshire, England

William Esson (born 1838 in Dundee, Scotland, died August 28, 1916 Abingdon, England ^[1]) was a British mathematician. He attended St John's College, Oxford, and then became a fellow of Merton College . In 1892, he became the Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. He worked on problems in chemistry with Augustus George Vernon Harcourt.

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