John Smith (mathematician)

John Smith was an English mathematician: He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1766 to 1797.

Savilian Professors of Geometry
  • Henry Briggs (1619)
  • Peter Turner (1631)
  • John Wallis (1649)
  • Edmond Halley (1704)
  • Nathaniel Bliss (1742)
  • Joseph Betts (1765)
  • John Smith (1766)
  • Abraham Robertson (1797)
  • Stephen Rigaud (1810)
  • Baden Powell (1827)
  • Henry John Stephen Smith (1861)
  • James Joseph Sylvester (1883)
  • William Esson (1897)
  • Godfrey Harold Hardy (1920)
  • Edward Charles Titchmarsh (1931)
  • Michael Atiyah (1963)
  • Ioan James (1969)
  • Richard Taylor (1995)
  • Nigel Hitchin (1997)
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