Erland Samuel Bring

Erland Samuel Bring was a Swedish mathematician, born in 1736, who studied at Lund University between 1750 and 1757. He obtained a position as reader in history in 1762 and was promoted to professor in 1779. At Lund he wrote eight volumes of mathematical work in the fields of algebra, geometry, analysis and astronomy, including Meletemata quaedam mathematica circa transformationem aequationum algebraicarum in 1786, which describes his contribution to the algebraic solution of equations. He developed a transformation that simplifies a quintic equation to a form with only the fifth power, the first power and a constant, which gives the Bring radical; George Jerrard independently derived the same transformation in 1832 to 1835. Bring's curve is named after him. He died in 1798.