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

succeeded by Hymn Playfair Project TS Playfair, a Canadian sail training vessel Playfair's axiom named after John Playfair Playfair cipher, a manual encryption...

James Playfair and mathematician John Playfair. His father died in 1772 when he was 13, leaving the eldest brother John to care for the family and his education...

In geometry, Playfair's axiom is an axiom that can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the parallel postulate): In a plane, given a line...

also an architect, and his uncles were the mathematician John Playfair and William Playfair, an economist and pioneer of statistical graphics. After his...

several notable Scots, including philosopher David Hume, scientist John Playfair, rival publishers William Blackwood and Archibald Constable, and clergyman...

mathematician John Playfair. It lies along the eastern rim of the eroded satellite crater Playfair G, a formation that is almost twice the diameter of Playfair itself...

John Playfair Price (4 July 1905 – 5 May 1988) was a British diplomat, and a former President of the Oxford Union. The son of William Arthur Price by...

he supported the UK leaving the EU. In October 2016, Leith married John Playfair, a retired clothes designer; the couple originally lived apart in separate...

was named Playfair House after the Playfair family, which included John Playfair, professor of mathematics and his nephew William Henry Playfair, the Edinburgh...