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{{Short description|English mathematician (1741–1793)}}
{{for|the Scottish mathematician (1847–1896) |John Wilson (Scottish mathematician)}}
{{Other people|John Wilson}}
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| name              = John Wilson
| image             = [[File:John Wilson (Mathematician).jpeg|John Wilson (Mathematician)]]
| birth_date        = {{birth date|df=yes|1741|08|06}}
| birth_place       = [[Applethwaite]], [[Westmorland]], England
| death_date        = {{death date and age|df=yes|1793|10|18|1741|08|06}}
| death_place       = [[Kendal]], Westmorland, England
| nationality       = British
}}
'''Sir John Wilson''' (6 August 1741, [[Applethwaite]], [[Westmorland]] &ndash; 18 October 1793, [[Kendal]], Westmorland)<ref>[{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=OVkoCcszEZ0C|page=50|text=1741–1793}} Robinson (2003), p. 50].</ref> was an [[England|English]] mathematician and judge.  [[Wilson's theorem]] is named after him.

Wilson attended school in [[Staveley, Cumbria]] before going up to [[Peterhouse, Cambridge|Peterhouse]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] in 1757,<ref name=Venn>{{acad|id=WL757J|name=Wilson, John}}</ref> where he was a student of  [[Edward Waring]].  He was [[Wrangler (University of Cambridge)|Senior Wrangler]] in 1761.<ref name=Venn /> He was later knighted, and became a [[Fellow of the Royal Society]] in 1782.  He was [[Court of Common Pleas (England)|Judge of Common Pleas]] from 1786 until his death in 1793.

==See also==
*[[Wilson prime]]

==Notes==
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==References==
* C. M. Neale (1907) ''The Senior Wranglers of the University of Cambridge''.  Available [https://books.google.com/books?id=eywBAAAAYAAJ online]
* Robinson, Derek John Scott. ''An introduction to abstract algebra''. 2003. Walter de Gruyter. {{ISBN|978-3-11-017544-8}}

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