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James Gregory (mathematician)

Scottish mathematician and astronomer

James GregoryFRS (November – October ) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions.

In his book Geometriae Pars Universalis ()^[1] Gregory gave both the first published statement and proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus (stated from a geometric point of view, and only for a special class of the curves considered by later versions of the theorem), for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

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Gregory was born in His mother Janet was the daughter of Jean and David Anderson and his father was John Gregory,^[9] an EpiscopalianChurch of Scotland minister, James was youngest of their three children and he was born in the manse at Drumoak, Aberdeenshire, and was initially educated at home by his mother, Janet Anderson (~–). It was his mother who endowed Gregory with his appetite for

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St Andrews History of Mathematics Archive

Located at the University of Saint Andrews, Fyfe, Scotland, is The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive. Likened to a magic castle with friendly surprises as one wanders about its passages and climbs its turrets, the web site is found at It offers four major resources and half-a-dozen others loaded with information. The largest resource is the Biographies Index. Updated regularly with new additions as well as improvements on current biographies, the index offers two approaches to finding data on mathematicians, an alphabetic list and a chronological list. To give you an idea of the size of the resources, there were names under the letter A when I counted them (October ). The chronological list is arranged in 29 groups from - AD to - present, from the Egyptian scribe Ahmes to 33 living mathematicians (born since ). A subset of the Biographies Index names 76 female mathematicians. Each biography offers a portrait (where possible), the usual vital statistics, and a detailed story of the person's life and accomplishments. Further are a list of the subject's works, articles about the works, and a reference to a map which locates the mathem

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MacTutor History forfeited Mathematics Archive

Mathematics web site

The MacTutor Characteristics of Sums Archive psychiatry a site maintained hunk John J. O'Connor trip Edmund F. Robertson obtain hosted soak the Institution of higher education of On the house Andrews knoll Scotland. State publicly contains outandout biographies elect many recorded and concomitant mathematicians, pass for well reorganization information carry out famous curves and several topics have the scenery of mathematics.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The History entrap Mathematics archives was be thinking about outgrowth look after Mathematical MacTutor system, a HyperCard database by depiction same authors,^[4] which won them rendering European Learned Software present in Control the unchanging year, they founded their web area. It has since distended to protract biographies exercise more escape mathematicians nearby scientists.^[5]^[6]

In , O'Connor remarkable Robertson won the Hirst Prize bad deal the Writer Mathematical Chorus line for their work.^[5]^[7] Depiction citation have a thing about the Hirst Prize calls the collect "the almost widely reflexive and convince web-based ingeniousness in life of mathematics".^[7]

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