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Roger Cotes

1682 - 1716

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Roger Cotes (10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716) was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also devised the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, which originated from Newton's research, and made a geometric argument that can be interpreted as a logarithmic version of Euler's formula. He was the first Plumian Professor at Cambridge University from 1707 until his death. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Roger Cotes is the 416th most popular mathematician (down from 368th in 2019), the 2,069th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,727th in 2019) and the 45th most popular British Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Roger Cotes ranks 416 out of 1,004. Before him are Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, Gilles de Roberval, Ernesto Cesàro, Oscar Zariski, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel. After him are Jakow Trachtenberg, Daniele Barbaro, Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch, Mitchell Feigenbaum, Guido Fubini, and Charles Jean de la Vallée Poussin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1682, Roger Cotes ranks 13. Before him are Giovanni Battista Morgagni, Şehsuvar Sultan, Shahu I, William VIII, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, and Jacopo Amigoni. After him are Jean-François Dandrieu, Jan van Huysum, Johann Jacob Bach, Princess Johanna Charlotte of Anhalt-Dessau, John Hadley, and Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg. Among people deceased in 1716, Roger Cotes ranks 8. Before him are Louis de Montfort, Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine, Engelbert Kaempfer, Tokugawa Ietsugu, Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, and Ogata Kōrin. After him are Anthim the Iberian, Dorothe Engelbretsdatter, Silahdar Damat Ali Pasha, Banda Singh Bahadur, Giovanni Battista Bassani, and Charles de La Fosse.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Roger Cotes ranks 2,069 out of 8,785. Before him are Phil Lynott (1949), Thomas Rowlandson (1756), Irvine Welsh (1957), Ray Winstone (1957), Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick (1475), and Arnold Wesker (1932). After him are Philippa Foot (1920), Effie Gray (1828), Chris Martin (1977), James Wolfe (1727), William Hamilton (1730), and Edward Cave (1691).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United Kingdom

Among mathematicians born in United Kingdom, Roger Cotes ranks 45. Before him are John Graunt (1620), Thomas Heath (1861), Thomas Simpson (1710), William George Horner (1786), Peter Barlow (1776), and Edmund Gunter (1581). After him are Thomas Henderson (1798), William Jones (1675), Mary Cartwright (1900), Eric Temple Bell (1883), William Sealy Gosset (1876), and W. V. D. Hodge (1903).

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