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Born November 23, 1616 • Ashford • England • (Birthday in 2 days)
Died October 28, 1703 (aged 86) • Oxford • England
Notable Works “Arithmetic of Infinities” • “Mathesis Universalis” • “Mechanica, sive Tractatus de Motu” • “Tractatus de Sectionibus Conicis” • “Treatise on Algebra”
Subjects Of Study calculus • exponent • infinitesimal • mathematics • squaring the circle • symbol

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William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Brook Taylor, detail of a gouache miniature by Joseph Goupy; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Swiss mathematician
Évariste Galois, detail of an engraving, 1848, after a drawing by Alfred Galois.
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French mathematician
James Gregory.
James Gregory
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
Johann Bernoulli, oil painting by Johann Jakob Meyer, 1720; in a private collection
Johann Bernoulli
Swiss mathematician
Seki Takakazu
Japanese mathematician
James Stirling
British mathematician
Colin Maclaurin, engraving by S. Freeman; in the British Museum.
Colin Maclaurin
Scottish mathematician
Robert Recorde
Welsh mathematician
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Giuseppe Peano
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Vito Volterra
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Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
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Ferdinand von Lindemann
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
British logician and philosopher
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