Mathematical Methods

Chapter 6

 

¹ NEWTON, Sir Isaac (1642–1727), the great English mathematician, physicist and astronomer. He and Leibnitz invented Calculus independently. He became professor at Cambridge in 1699. His mathematical principles of natural philosophy was completed in (1687).

² GREGORY, James (1638–1675), was a Scottish astronomer, algebraist and analyst.

³ SHEPPARD, William Fleetwood (1863–1936), is an English probabilist and statistician.

⁴ LAGRANGE, Joseph Louis (1736–1813), the great French analyst, algebraist, number theorist, probablist, physicist and astronomer. His contributions are especially to calculus of variations, analytical mechanics and astronomy. He became professor at the Military Academy, Turin, at 19 and later in 1766 became the ...