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    Isaac Barrow (October 1630 – 4 May 1677) was an English Christian theologian and mathematician who is generally given credit for his early role in the...
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    aequationes numero terminorum infinitas, sent by Isaac Barrow to John Collins in June 1669, was identified by Barrow in a letter sent to Collins that August as...
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    the puritan party during the reign of Charles I. As a child in 1634, Isaac Barrow, the theologian and mathematician, lived for two years at Spinney Priory...
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  • Isaac Barrow (1613 – 24 June 1680) was an English clergyman who served, consecutively, as Bishop of Sodor and Man and Bishop of St Asaph, and also served...
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  • translation (1916) The geometrical lectures of Isaac Barrow reviewer: Arnold Dresden (Jun 1918) p.454 Barrow has the fundamental theorem of calculus Johnston...
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  • infinitesimal error term. The combination was achieved by John Wallis, Isaac Barrow, and James Gregory, the latter two proving predecessors to the second...
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  • Isaac Babel (1894–1940), Russian journalist, playwright and short story writer Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), English theologian and mathematician Isaac Beeckman...
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    after this letter; the tangents of this curve were first calculated by Isaac Barrow in the 17th century. Mathematics and statistics In graph theory, the...
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    which he was elected on 28 April 1664, he was examined in Euclid by Isaac Barrow, who was disappointed in Newton's lack of knowledge of the subject. Newton...
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  • James Gregory (1638–1675). Isaac Barrow (1630–1677) proved a more generalized version of the theorem, while his student Isaac Newton (1642–1727) completed...
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    Lane.) The west side was transformed from 1673 onwards when the master, Isaac Barrow, persuaded his friend Christopher Wren to design a library for the college...
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  • John H. Barrow Henry Barrowe (c. 1550–1593), 16th-century English Puritan and separatist Irvine Barrow (1913–2005), Canadian politician Isaac Barrow (1630–1677)...
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  • Johannes Praetorius, more in 1643 by Anton Deusing, extensively in 1655 by Isaac Barrow in the form Q.E.D., and subsequently by many post-Renaissance mathematicians...
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  • Since its establishment, the professorship has been held by, among others, Isaac Newton, Charles Babbage, George Stokes, Joseph Larmor, Paul Dirac, and Stephen...
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    then be later expanded by Pierre de Fermat, John Wallis, Isaac Barrow, James Gregory, Isaac Newton, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Maria Gaetana Agnesi...
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    Isaac Newton's apple tree at Woolsthorpe Manor represents the inspiration behind Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gravity. While the precise details of Newton's...
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  • from its grammatical function. An early example occurs in a sermon by Isaac Barrow published in 1741. " … his oaths are no more than waste and insignificant...
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    earlier work by mathematicians such as Pierre de Fermat (1607-1665), Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), René Descartes (1596–1650), Christiaan Huygens (1629–1695)...
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    Christopher Wren under the instruction of the master of the college, Isaac Barrow, forming the Wren Library. In the 1860s, William Whewell paid for the...
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    afterwards published by James Gregory, in his Geometria Universalis, and also by Barrow in his Lectiones Geometricæ; and that, by a letter of Torricelli, it appears...
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    Barrow is an old lunar impact crater that is located near the northern limb of the Moon. It lies between the crater Goldschmidt to the northwest and the...
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  • demonstrating that popular beliefs about venom are untrue. January 18 – Isaac Barrow is appointed first Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University...
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    by later versions of the theorem), for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow. Gregory was born in 1638. His mother Janet was the daughter of Jean...
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  • (同仁堂) is established in Beijing by imperial physician Yue Xianyang. Isaac Barrow publishes Lectiones Opticæ et Geometricæ in London. May 26 – Sébastien...
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    Archived from the original on 23 September 2020. Retrieved 9 May 2022. "Isaac Barrow". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 7 September 2022. "Francis and John Beaumont"...
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    roots of contact geometry appear in work of Christiaan Huygens, Isaac Barrow, and Isaac Newton. The theory of contact transformations (i.e. transformations...
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  • philosophers such as Pierre Gassendi, Walter Charleton, Robert Boyle, Isaac Barrow and Isaac Newton. It resulted in an empirical approach associated with early...
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  • is now called the definite integral, and he calculated their values. Isaac Barrow and James Gregory made further progress: quadratures for some algebraic...
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  • September 13 – Olof Rudbeck, Swedish physiologist (died 1702) October – Isaac Barrow, English mathematician (died 1677) possible date – Johann Kunckel, German...
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    Method of Fluxions (category Books by Isaac Newton)
    manipulations. Some of Newton's mathematical contemporaries, such as Isaac Barrow, were highly skeptical of such techniques, which had no clear geometric...
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