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James Gregory

1638 - 1675

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James Gregory (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions. In his book Geometriae Pars Universalis (1668) Gregory gave both the first published statement and proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus (stated from a geometric point of view, and only for a special class of the curves considered by later versions of the theorem), for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. James Gregory is the 198th most popular mathematician (down from 183rd in 2019), the 1,018th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 864th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Mathematician.

James Gregory is most famous for his invention of the reflecting telescope.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, James Gregory ranks 198 out of 1,004. Before him are Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow, Étienne-Louis Malus, Wacław Sierpiński, Camille Jordan, Jan Łukasiewicz, and René Thom. After him are Lewis Fry Richardson, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Ernst Schröder, Tatyana Afanasyeva, Conon of Samos, and Victor D'Hondt.

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Among people born in 1638, James Gregory ranks 12. Before him are Zeb-un-Nissa, Emperor Go-Sai, Catherine of Braganza, Olympia Mancini, Countess of Soissons, Elisabetta Sirani, and Meindert Hobbema. After him are Frederik Ruysch, Christoph Cellarius, Carlo Fontana, Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, Gerrit Berckheyde, and Pierre Magnol. Among people deceased in 1675, James Gregory ranks 5. Before him are Johannes Vermeer, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, Viscount of Turenne, Gerrit Dou, and Charles Emmanuel II, Duke of Savoy. After him are Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Thomas Willis, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine, Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Guru Tegh Bahadur, and Leopoldo de' Medici.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Gregory ranks 1,018 out of 8,785. Before him are Beorhtric of Wessex (800), David I of Scotland (1084), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), Oliver Sacks (1933), Ian McDiarmid (1944), and Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877). After him are Godfrey Hounsfield (1919), John of Salisbury (1110), Freeman Dyson (1923), Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Danny Boyle (1956), and Len Deighton (1929).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, James Gregory ranks 22. Before him are Annie S. D. Maunder (1868), Colin Maclaurin (1698), Oliver Heaviside (1850), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), John Pell (1611), and G. I. Taylor (1886). After him are Lewis Fry Richardson (1881), Arthur Cayley (1821), Henry Briggs (1561), Robert Grosseteste (1175), Peter Tait (1831), and Michael Atiyah (1929).

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