tutor to encourage Roger's talent. The Smiths' son, Robert Smith, became a close associate of Roger Cotes throughout his life. Cotes later studied at St...
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equally spaced points. They are named after Isaac Newton and Roger Cotes. Newton–Cotes formulas can be useful if the value of the integrand at equally...
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which is known as Euler's identity. In 1714, the English mathematician Roger Cotes presented a geometrical argument that can be interpreted (after correcting...
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plane curves, a Cotes's spiral (also written Cotes' spiral and Cotes spiral) is one of a family of spirals classified by Roger Cotes. Cotes introduces his...
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2020 Joseph Edleston; Sir Isaac Newton; Roger Côtes (1850). Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes. Routledge. p. lxxiv note 158. ISBN 978-0-7146-1597-4...
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"Biography of Roger Cotes". The MacTutor History of Mathematics. Archived from the original on 2012-10-19. Retrieved 2006-04-21. Cotes, Roger (1722). "Editoris...
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Regent "Roger" Côté (December 22, 1939 – July 16, 2020) was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played 155 games in the World Hockey Association...
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edition) Isaac Newton, Sir; J Edleston; Roger Cotes, Correspondence of Sir Isaac Newton and Professor Cotes, including letters of other eminent men,...
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its computation Gourdon, X.; Reported large computations with PiFast Roger Cotes (1714) "Logometria," Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...
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identity] can easily be deduced from results of Johann Bernoulli and Roger Cotes, but that neither of them seem to have done so. Even Euler does not seem...
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Cambridge, but it was badly managed by Newton's friend and associate, Roger Cotes; the project finally collapsed, leaving Gray with little option but to...
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Under the weight of Cotes' efforts, but impeded by priority disputes between Newton and Leibniz, and by troubles at the Mint, Cotes was able to announce...
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{\sqrt {2k}}\right).} The curve was named for the ancient Roman lituus by Roger Cotes in a collection of papers entitled Harmonia Mensurarum (1722), which...
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in 1682, Leibniz proved that sin x is not an algebraic function of x. Roger Cotes computed the derivative of sine in his Harmonia Mensurarum (1722). Leonhard...
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and died in June 2023 due to unknown reasons. Grace Babson, the wife of Roger Babson, was able to pursue her collection, later amounting to over 1,000...
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up Cotes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Cotes is a surname of English origin. Notable people with the surname are as follows: Ambrosio Cotes (c.1550–1603)...
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Taylor was one of few English mathematicians, along with Isaac Newton and Roger Cotes, who was capable of holding his own with the Bernoullis, but a lack of...
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Fellow of the Royal Society. Besides editing two works by his cousin, Roger Cotes, who was his predecessor in the Plumian chair, he published A Compleat...
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Barrow (professor) William Clarke (mentor) Benjamin Pulleyn (tutor) Roger Cotes (student) William Whiston (student) John Keill (disciple) William Stukeley (friend)...
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although he delegated most of the scientific work involved to his pupil Roger Cotes. Richard Bentley was born at his maternal grandparents' home at Oulton...
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Euler developed his modern conception of complex natural logarithms, Roger Cotes had a nearly equivalent result when he showed in 1714 that log ( cos...
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decrease with aggregation rather than increase, perhaps first expressed by Roger Cotes in 1722. The combination of different observations taken under the same...
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was also promoted by Newton's followers including Samuel Clarke and Roger Cotes during the 17th and 18th centuries. An absolute theory is the opposite...
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Canadian NHL player Roger Côté (1939–2020), Canadian ice hockey player Suzanne Côté (born 1958), Canadian Supreme Court justice Sylvain Côté, Canadian NHL player...
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Natural Way." Jurin was an "ardent Newtonian". He had studied under Roger Cotes and William Whiston at Cambridge but only came to know Newton at the...
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abbreviations sin., cos., tang., cot., sec., and cosec. Prior to this, Roger Cotes had computed the derivative of sine in his Harmonia Mensurarum (1722)...
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April 16 – John Hadley, English mathematician (died 1744) July 10 – Roger Cotes, English mathematician (died 1716) July 12 – Jean Picard, French astronomer...
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the English mathematician Nicholas Saunderson, who attributed it to Roger Cotes as a method for computing continued fractions efficiently. In the 19th...
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§ History. The formal study of theory of errors may be traced back to Roger Cotes' Opera Miscellanea (posthumous, 1722), but a memoir prepared by Thomas...
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of July Cotes went to London, no doubt expecting to bring down with him to Cambridge the corrected portion of the Principia. Although Cotes was impatient...
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