Mathematician:Roger Cotes
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Mathematician
English mathematician, who worked closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica before publication.
Invented the quadrature formulas known as Newton-Cotes Formulas.
First introduced in $1714$ what is known today as Euler's Formula, in the form $\map \ln {\cos \theta + i \sin \theta} = i \theta$.
Introduced the concept of the radian.
Died tragically young of a fever.
Nationality
English
History
- Born: 10 July 1682 in Burbage, Leicestershire, England
- Died: 5 June 1716 in Cambridge, England
Theorems
- Newton-Cotes Rule (with Isaac Newton) (also known as Newton-Cotes Formulas)
Results named for Roger Cotes can be found here.
Definitions of concepts named for Roger Cotes can be found here.
Publications
- March 1714: Logometria
- 1722: Harmonia Mensurarum (his collected papers, assembled after his death)
- 1738: Hydrostatical and Pneumatical Lectures (his collected lectures on experimental physics)
Critical View
- ... if he had lived we might have known something.
- -- Isaac Newton
Sources
- 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Cotes, Roger (1682-1716)
- 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Cotes, Roger (1682-1716)