Edward Waring was a British mathematician. He entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a sizar and became Senior wrangler in 1757. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalene and in 1760 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, holding the chair until his death. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Waring was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1763 and awarded the Copley Medal in 1784.
Waring (ca. 1736–1798). Portrait by Thomas Kerrich, 1794.
Miscellanea analytica, 1762
Magdalene College, Cambridge
Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college was founded in 1428 as a Benedictine hostel, in time coming to be known as Buckingham College, before being refounded in 1542 as the College of St Mary Magdalene.
Magdalene College on the River Cam
Street front of Magdalene College porter's lodge, with its 16th-century architecture retained
The modern gargoyle of Benedict Spinola in the Quayside site; he is considered to have defrauded the college
The Pepys Building houses the Pepys Library