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... wrote on trigonometry and arithmetic , 1 and Thomas Bradwardine , the author of four popular treatises on mathematics . It was , however , in a treatise of the greatest French writer of this period , Nicole Oresme , that the first ...
... wrote on trigonometry and arithmetic , 1 and Thomas Bradwardine , the author of four popular treatises on mathematics . It was , however , in a treatise of the greatest French writer of this period , Nicole Oresme , that the first ...
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... wrote : " The person to whom many give the Honour of your Essay is one Finch , an ingenious young Fellow , from Norwich , who went to Sea about 3 years ago , and give it out before he went that he wrote a small piece upon Fluxions , and ...
... wrote : " The person to whom many give the Honour of your Essay is one Finch , an ingenious young Fellow , from Norwich , who went to Sea about 3 years ago , and give it out before he went that he wrote a small piece upon Fluxions , and ...
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... wrote me ( with a view I suppose to begin a correspondence ) but has said some Things that give me Room to doubt that he is not a person of ye most exact Decorum ( I should therefore be glad if when you write to me again you would give ...
... wrote me ( with a view I suppose to begin a correspondence ) but has said some Things that give me Room to doubt that he is not a person of ye most exact Decorum ( I should therefore be glad if when you write to me again you would give ...
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Abraham de Moivre Algebra Annuities and Reversions answer appeared Application of Fluxions Body Cajori concerning controversy correspondence Curve David Eugene Smith Dear Sir demonstrated Diary Doctrine of Annuities Doctrine of Fluxions Dodson edition eighteenth century Elements of Geometry England equations essay Fluent Francis Blake give given History of Mathematics Honoured Sir Humble Servant Hutton infinite interest John John Landen John Turner Ladies Landen later letter written London Lordship Maclaurin manner Martin Folkes mathe mathematicians Mathematicks matics method of fluxions Moivre Motion Muller nature Newton's method obliged orbit Orders of Fluxions paper plane printed problem proposed publication published pupils Quantity Robert Heath Robert Simson Royal Academy Royal Society says Sciences Second Master Simp solution suppose teach textbooks Theorem theory thing Thomas Simpson thought tion Treatise of Fluxions trigonometry uniform Space uniformly Velocity Woolwich writing written by Simpson