John Playfair FRSE, FRS (10 [citation needed] March 1748 – 20 July 1819) was a Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh.

Feb 5, 2024 · Prue revealed that the following day, John, 77, turned up on her doorstep as he admitted he instantly 'knew she was the one'. Prue Leith and her husband John Playfair shared the details of the...

Feb 15, 2023 · Who is Prue Leith's husband John Playfair? Born in England, John Playfair is a retired English fashion designer. The pair met in 2011 when Prue was 76 and he was 70.

John Playfair was a Scottish geologist and mathematician known for his explanation and expansion of ideas on uniformitarianism—the theory that the Earth’s features generally represent a response to former processes similar in kind to processes that are operative today.

2 days ago · Prue Leith has shared a brutal insight into her marriage with retired fashion designer John Playfair, including an unusual punishment when one of them snores too loudly. The Great British Bake Off ...

Apr 18, 2024 · Dame Prue Leith is known for her statement necklaces, but The Great British Bake Off judge's husband, John Playfair, is the real fashionista. Retired designer Playfair, 77, once created uniforms...

John Playfair worked on geology, physics and geometry and studied at the University of St Andrews. His best-known contribution to mathematics is his form of Euclid's parallelism axiom.

2 days ago · In her private life, Leith has now moved in with her “much younger” husband John Playfair in their custom-built house on her farm. The pair married in 2016, more than a decade after the death of Leith’s first husband, Rayne Kruger, in 2002. Before sharing their new house, the couple lived separately and have continued some of their old ...

May 21, 2018 · Playfair, John (1748–1819) Scottish mathematician, who popularized and promoted the plutonist and uniformitarian theories of James Hutton, rewriting his work to make it more easily readable (1802). A Dictionary of Earth Sciences AILSA ALLABY and …

John Playfair (1748–1819) is best known among mathematicians for his 1795 textbook, Elements of Geometry, and among historians of science as one of the founders of geology as a formal discipline. He was born on March 10, 1748, in Liff and Benvie, Scotland, the eldest son of what eventually was seven siblings who lived to adulthood.