William Wallace
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- Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
- Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
- Hegel's Ten Books
- Philosophy of Mind (Jovian Press)
- Robert Burns And Mrs Dunlop Volume II
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1860-07-03
- Active to
- 1940-12-16
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Not to be confused with the Irish Romantic-era composer William Vincent Wallace William Wallace (3 July 1860 - 16 December 1940) was a Scottish classical composer. Born at Greenock, he studied ophthalmology at the University of Glasgow, and in Vienna and Paris becoming a qualified ophthalmic surgeon, before deciding to study music at the Royal Academy in London in 1889. Wallace was greatly influenced by Liszt, and was an early (though not the first) composer of symphonic poems in Britain. <a
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- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- William
- Family name
- Wallace
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Great Britain
- Place of birth
- Dysart
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Field of work
- geometry
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- William Wallace Mathematician.jpeg
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- name in native language
- William Wallace
- place of burial
- Greyfriars Kirkyard
- date of birth
- 1768-09-23
- date of death
- 1843-04-28
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- member of
- Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Commons category
- William Wallace (mathematician)
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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