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| |name = John Colson
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| |image = johncolson.gif
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| |birth_date = 1680
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| |death_date = 20 January 1760, aged 80
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| |death_place = [[Cambridge]]
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| |nationality = [[United Kingdom]]
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| |field = [[Mathematics]]
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| |work_institutions = [[University of Cambridge]]
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| |alma_mater = [[Christ Church, Oxford]]
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| |known_for = [[Signed-digit representation]]
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| ''' John Colson''' (1680–1760) was an [[English people|English]] [[clergyman]] and [[mathematician]], [[Lucasian Professor of Mathematics]] at [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge University]].
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| ==Life==
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| John Colson was educated at Lichfield School before becoming an undergraduate at [[Christ Church, Oxford]], though he did not take a degree there.
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| He became a schoolmaster at Sir Joseph Williamson's Mathematical School in Rochester, and was elected [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1713.
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| He was Vicar of [[Chalk, Kent]] from 1724 to 1740.
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| He came to Cambridge and lectured at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge]]. {{sfn|Cooper|1887}}
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| From 1739 to 1760 he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He was also Rector of [[Lockington, Yorkshire]].<ref>{{acad|id=CL728J2|name=Colson, John}}</ref>
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| ==Works==
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| In 1726 he published his [[signed-digit representation|Negativo-Affirmativo Arithmetik]] advocating a modified decimal system of numeration. It involved "reduction [to] small figures" by "throwing all the large figures <math>9, 8, 7, 6</math> out of a given number, and introducing in their room the equivalent small figures <math>1\bar{1}, 1\bar{2}, 1\bar{3}, 1\bar{4}</math> respectively".
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| John Colson translated several of [[Isaac Newton]]'s works into English, including ''De Methodis Serierum et Fluxionum'' in 1736.{{sfn|Cooper|1887}}
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| ==See also==
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| *[[Method of Fluxions]]
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| *[[Witch of Agnesi]]
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| ==Notes==
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| {{reflist}}
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| ==References==
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| *{{cite DNB|wstitle=Colson, John|first=Thompson |last=Cooper|volume=11|pages=405-406}}
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| *{{cite web | author=Robert Bruen | title=Lucasian Chair: John Colson | url=http://www.lucasianchair.org/18/colson.html | work=Lucasian Chair.org | publisher=Cambridge University | year=2008 | accessdate=2008-04-02}}
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| *[http://www.lucasianchair.org/papers/brief.html "A Brief History of The Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge University"] — Robert Bruen, Boston College, May 1995
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| * John Colson (1726) "A Short Account of Negativo-Affirmativo Arithmetik", [[Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society]] 34:161–73. Available as ''Early Journal Content'' from [http://www.jstor.org/stable/103469 JSTOR].
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| {{Lucasian Professors of Mathematics}}
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| {{Persondata <!-- Metadata: see [[Wikipedia:Persondata]]. -->
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| | NAME = Colson, John
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| | SHORT DESCRIPTION = Mathematician
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| | DATE OF BIRTH = 1680
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| | DATE OF DEATH = 20 January 1760
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| | PLACE OF DEATH = [[Cambridge]], England
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| [[Category:1680 births]]
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| [[Category:18th-century English mathematicians]]
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| [[Category:Academics of the University of Cambridge]]
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| [[Category:English Anglicans]]
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| [[Category:Lucasian Professors of Mathematics]]
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| [[Category:Fellows of the Royal Society]]
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Hi there. Allow me begin by introducing the author, her name is Myrtle Cleary. For many years he's been living in North Dakota and his family members enjoys it. What I love doing is doing ceramics but I haven't produced a dime with it. I am a meter reader.
my blog post ... home std test kit; i thought about this,