Mathematician:Joseph Raphson
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Mathematician
English mathematician best known for the Newton-Raphson method for approximating the zeroes of a function.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 1668 in Pinner, Middlesex, England
- Died: 1712 in England
Theorems and Definitions
- Newton-Raphson Method for approximating the zeroes of a function, independently of Isaac Newton (also known as Newton's Method)
Definitions of concepts named for Joseph Raphson can be found here.
Publications
- 1690: Analysis Aequationum Universalis (in which Newton-Raphson Method appears)
- 1697: De Spatio Reali
- 1702: A mathematical dictionary (translation and abridgement of Jacques Ozanam's Dictionnaire mathématique of $1691$)
- 1710: Demonstratio de Deo
- 1720: Universal Arithmetick (translation into English of Isaac Newton's Arithmetica Universalis of $1707$