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Viète died in 1603, and it is unclear if Anderson knew him, but his eminence was sufficient to attract the attention of the dead man's executors. [5] Anderson corrected and expanded upon Viète's manuscripts, which extended known geometry to the new algebra , which used general symbols to represent quantities.
Alexander Anderson (mathematician) Alexander Anderson (poet) John Kinloch Anderson; John Arbuthnott (microbiologist) ... Tom Husband; J. Robert Jack (physicist)
Alexander Anderson (mathematician) (c. 1580–1620), Scottish mathematician Alexander Anderson (physicist) (1858–1936), Irish physicist and university president Alexander P. Anderson (1862–1943), American physiologist, botanist, and breakfast cereal inventor
James Gregory FRS (November 1638 – October 1675) 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.
astronomer and mathematician author of Astronomique Discours, Lyons, 1557 Alexander Graham Bell: 1847–1922 engineer, scientist telephone inventor Eric Temple Bell: 1883–1960 mathematician science fiction writer Robert J. T. Bell: 1876–1963 mathematician Professor of Pure and Applied mathematics at the University of Otago: James W. Black ...
Pages in category "17th-century Scottish mathematicians" ... Alexander Anderson (mathematician) C. John Craig (mathematician) G. Robert Gordon of Straloch;
It includes some 17th- and 18th-century mathematicians and polymaths whose work is regarded as influential in shaping the later discipline of statistics. Also included are various actuaries , economists , and demographers known for providing leadership in applying statistics to their fields.
Alexander Anderson (mathematician) James Anderson (Freemason) John Anderson (Scottish engineer) John Hendry Anderson; B. Alexander Bain (philosopher) Andrew Wilson Baird;