| Authorised form of name | Williams; Reeve (fl 1682 - 1703) |
| Dates | fl 1682 - 1703 |
| Nationality | British |
| Research field | Mathematics |
| Activity | Career:
Kept a mathematical school at the Virginia Coffee House, and afterwards at his house; was a candidate for the post of mathematical master at Christ's Hospital but failed to get the job because he was not a Latin scholar
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 11/01/1699 |
| Other Royal Society activity | Proposed by Robert Hooke |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; Hunter; Taylor
Notes:
No details exist for this Fellow, never admitted and no payments recorded in AB.
Michael Hunter writes:
'It is clear from the reference in the journal book that he was an arithmetician. The only person mentioned by EGR Taylor who would fit the bill is Reeve Williams, who flourished c.1682-1703, an engraver and teacher who kept a mathematical school in London.'
Reeve Williams also dedicated a book to Samuel Pepys |
| Code | NA1444 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| RR/77/272 | Referee's report by William Edward Curtis, on a paper 'The fundamental vibration-rotation band of hydrogen chloride' by Ian Mark Mills, Harold Warris Thompson and Reeve Williams | 7 February 1953 |