William Hopkins was an English mathematician and geologist, born on 2 February 1793 at Kingston-on-Soar in Derbyshire. His father meant him to become a farmer, but he became famous as a private tutor of aspiring Cambridge mathematicians, earning the nickname of the senior-wrangler maker. Apart from his tutoring his contribution to pure mathematics was modest, chiefly a two volume Elements of Trigonometry written in 1833 and 1847. In geology he argued for a solid rather than fluid interior of the Earth and explained many geological phenomena in terms of that model, although his mathematical and physical reasoning was later seen as unsound. He died in Cambridge in 1866.
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was an English mathematician and geologist.
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He neither enjoyed the work nor did it bring in enough money to allow him to live a reasonable life and debts began to mount.
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