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    John Landen (23 January 1719 – 15 January 1790) was an English mathematician. He was born at Peakirk, near Peterborough in Northamptonshire, on 28 January...
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    numerical evaluation of elliptic functions. It was originally due to John Landen and independently rediscovered by Carl Friedrich Gauss. The incomplete...
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    Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis; born February 23, 1965) is an American actress and producer. She is known for playing Charlotte...
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  • United States Bill Landen (born 1956), member of the Wyoming Senate Dinsdale Landen (1932–2003), British television actor John Landen (1719–1790), English...
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    Low Countries (redirect from De Lage Landen)
    The Low Countries The Low Countries (Dutch: de Lage Landen; French: les Pays-Bas), historically also known as the Netherlands (Dutch: de Nederlanden),...
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    Non-standard analysis Newton's method Charles Hayes (mathematician) John Landen John Colson Leibniz–Newton calculus controversy Joseph Raphson Time in physics...
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    generality of algebra. A somewhat similar method had been previously used by John Landen in the Residual Analysis, published in London in 1758. Lagrange believed...
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  • OCLC 932002663.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) John Landen: An Investigation of a general Theorem for finding the Length of any...
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    Mary with St Alban where there is a memorial. In 1759, he married Frances Landen (died 1798), by whom he had six children. He very soon gave up the duties...
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    this property of the AGM along with the ascending transformations of John Landen, Richard P. Brent suggested the first AGM algorithms for the fast evaluation...
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    Guichen, French admiral (b. 1712) January 15 – John Landen, English mathematician (b. 1719) January 20 – John Howard (prison reformer), English philanthropist...
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  • Stirling, American Revolutionary War Major General (b. 1726) 1790 – John Landen, English mathematician and theorist (b. 1719) 1804 – Dru Drury, English...
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  • others. Paul Halcke discovers the smallest Euler brick. January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician (died 1790) August 4 – Johann Gottlob Lehmann...
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  • Diepraam, Dutch painter (d. 1670) 1719 – John Landen, English mathematician and theorist (d. 1790) 1737 – John Hancock, American general and politician...
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    The Battle of Landen, also known as Battle of Neerwinden took place on 29 July 1693, during the Nine Years' War near Landen, then in the Spanish Netherlands...
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    Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge, British Earl (d. 1769) January 23 – John Landen, English mathematician (d. 1790) January 25 – Princess Sophia Dorothea...
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  • Parry, Arctic explorer (d. 1855) 15 January – John Landen, mathematician (born 1719) 20 January – John Howard, prison reformer (born 1726) 5 February...
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    competes in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Blacktown City's home ground is Landen Stadium in the suburb of Seven Hills. The club was formed in 1953 as Toongabbie...
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    to geometry. It is indicative that he was one of the subscribers of John Landen's Residual Analysis (1764), one of the works in which the tradition of...
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  • Divisors, translated from Antonio Maria Lorgna, 1779, with appendix. John Landen attacked it in a pamphlet, stating that the method was contained in Thomas...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach composed the church cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen ("Exult in God in every land" or "Shout for joy to God in all lands") BWV 51...
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    through 2023) by: Jack Pickford (1917) Phillips Holmes (1934) John Mills (1946) Dinsdale Landen (1959) Gary Bond (1967) Simon Gipps-Kent (1974) Michael York...
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    John Anthony Barrasso III (/bəˈrɑːsoʊ/ bə-RAH-soh; born July 21, 1952) is an American physician and politician serving as the senior United States senator...
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  • January – Henry Paget, 2nd Earl of Uxbridge (died 1769) 23 January – John Landen, mathematician (died 1790) 13 February – George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron...
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    George Landen Dann (1 January 1904 – 6 June 1977) was an Australian playwright, writer, and draftsman. He is best known for a number of award-winning and...
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    The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion (German: Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the earliest of...
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    Curaçao, the Netherlands, and Sint Maarten—are constituent countries (landen in Dutch; singular: land) and participate on a basis of equality as partners...
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  • remarks of Jacobi, as Euler writes on Fagnano's work. 1775 John Landen publishes Landen's transformation, an isogeny formula. 1786 Adrien-Marie Legendre...
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    from the Witham Commissioners. Some of the surveying was performed by John Landen, who was the steward of the estate of Earl Fitzwilliam at Peterborough...
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    John Walter Jr. (23 February 1776 – 28 July 1847) was an English newspaper editor and politician. He was the son of John Walter, the founder of The Times...
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