William Jones, FRS was a Welsh mathematician best known for his use of the symbol π to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton a
Portrait by William Hogarth, 1740
Jones' usage of π
William Jones (philologist)
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Sir William Jones was a British philologist, scholar and judge. Born in Westminster to the Welsh mathematician William Jones, he moved to the Bengal Presidency where Jones served as a puisne judge on
William Jones (mathematician)
…death, and secondly, in 1731, Mary, the 22-year-old daughter of cabinet-maker George Nix, with whom he had two surviving children. His son, also named William Jones and born in 1746, was a renowned philologist who established links between Latin, Greek and Sanskrit, leading to the concept of the Indo-European…
Portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1767–1769
Tomb of William Jones in South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata.
Statue of Jones in St Paul's Cathedral, London