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Шаблон:Use dmy dates Bewick Bridge (1767, Linton, Cambridgeshire – 15 May 1833, Cherry Hinton) was an English vicar and mathematical author.[1]

In 1786, he was admitted as a sizar to study mathematics Peterhouse, Cambridge University, where he graduated as senior wrangler and won the Smith's Prize in 1790.[2][3]

In October 1790, he was ordained a deacon at Ely, and became a priest in 1792; in the same year he became a Fellow at Peterhouse, during which he spent time as both as college moderator and as proctor.[2] From 1806 until 1816, he was Professor of Mathematics at the East India Company College, Haileybury.[2] He wrote a number of mathematical texts:[3] his Algebra achieved international circulation.[4] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.[2]

From 1816 until 1833, he was vicar of Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, where in 1818 he built the vicarage, and he founded the village school in 1832 (now a Church of England PrimarySchool).[2] He died on 15 May 1833, aged 66.[2][3][5] In September 2011 the Cherry Hinton Community Junior School was named after Bewick, becoming Bewick Bridge Community Primary School.[6]

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  2. 2,0 2,1 2,2 2,3 2,4 2,5 Шаблон:Acad
  3. 3,0 3,1 3,2 Шаблон:Citation. Repr. Cambridge University Press, 2009, Шаблон:ISBN.
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  5. Bewick Bridge was christened on 30 March 1767.
  6. We're Changing Шаблон:Webarchive, Cherry Hinton Community Junior School, Retrieved 2011-06-28.