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William Jones, né à Londres le 28 septembre 1746 et mort à Calcutta (Inde) le 27 avril 1794, est un orientaliste et linguiste, fondateur en 1784 de la Société asiatique du Bengale, une des premières associations consacrées à l'étude scientifique des civilisations et langues orientales.
- Membre de la Royal Society et Knight Bachelor
- Royal Society
- University College et Harrow School
Sir William Jones was a British Orientalist and jurist who did much to encourage interest in Oriental studies in the West. Of Welsh parentage, he studied at Harrow and University College, Oxford (1764–68), and learned Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian. By the end of his life, he had learned.
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Sir William Jones FRS FRAS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was a British philologist, orientalist and a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India.
William Jones (September 28, 1746 – April 27, 1794) was an English philologist and student of ancient India. He is particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.
Sir William Jones (1675-1749) est un mathématicien gallois. Biographie. Il jouit des patronages de la famille Bulkeley du nord du Pays de Galles et plus tard du comte de Macclesfield qui lui permettent de mener sa carrière. Jones sert tout d'abord en mer, enseignant les mathématiques à bord d'un bateau entre 1695 et 1702. Après ...
William Jones was a Welsh mathematician who corresponded with many of the important English mathematicians of his day.
William Jones, FRS (1675 – 1 July 1749) was a Welsh mathematician, most noted for his use of the symbol π (the Greek letter Pi) to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. He was a close friend of Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Edmund Halley.
