In the history of mathematics, William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton as English mathematician and politician.
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton was born in 1631. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of England.
The seventeenth century produced the calculus and with it a dispute over priority that shaped mathematics for a century.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
That the work was done from Kingdom of England matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
William Brereton, 3rd Baron Brereton died in 1680, aged 49. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
