Viscount Brouncker. Portrait of Viscount William Brouncker,Irish mathematician and 2nd Viscount Brouncker of Castle Lyons (1620-84). He was a founding member of the Royal Society and its first President,and as a friend of Samuel Pepys was mentioned in his Diary. Brouncker expressed 'pi' as a continued fraction. With John Wallis,he solved Fermat's questions about Pell's equation,giving a general method for their solution | |
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