Tolong jelaskan mengenai Deret bilangan Farey dari John Farey

Selain dikenang oleh para ahli sejarah geologi, namanya juga banyak dikenal dengan deret bilangan Farey yang ditulisnya sebagai ketertarikan atas matematika suara.

Farey wafat London. Kemudian istrinya menawarkan koleksi geologi Farey ke Museum Britania, tetapi ditolak, koleksi tersebut lalu tersebar.

John Farey, A General View of the Agriculture and Minerals of Derbyshire, Volume 1. With Introduction by Trevor D. Ford and Hugh S. Torrens. (Peak District Mines Historical Society, 1989. Reprint of 1811 Edition). The introduction contains a list of Farey's writings located to the date of the reprint.

A.P. Woolrich, 'John Farey, Jr. (1791-1851): Engineer and Polymath' in History of Technology, 19, 1997, pp 111–142. (ISBN 0-7201-2365-8) (Includes a brief family history and a family tree)

H. S. Torrens, 'Farey, John (1766-1826)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Oxford University Press, 2004 [accessed 26 Sept 2004: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9154]