Erland Samuel Bring
Swedish mathematician
Died aged 61LeoSweden
Biography
Erland Samuel Bring (19 August 1736 – 20 May 1798) was a Swedish mathematician.
Bring studied at Lund University between 1750 and 1757. In 1762 he obtained a position of a reader in history and was promoted to professor in 1779. At Lund he wrote eight volumes of mathematical work in the fields of algebra, geometry, analysis and astronomy, including Meletemata quaedam mathematica circa transformationem aequationum algebraicarum (1786). This work describes Bring's contribution to the algebraic solution of equations.
Bring had developed an important transformation to simplify a quintic equation to the form
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5
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Career highlights
Career & roles
- rector
Employers / organisations
- Lund University
Notable works
- Bring radical
- Bring's curve
- Bring-Jerrard quintic form
Family
- Parents
- Jöns Bring
- Siblings
- Olof Bring
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- Erland Samuel Bring was born in Ausås parish.
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