Mathematician:Robert Simson

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Mathematician

Scots mathematician notable for having produced a translation of Euclid's The Elements which was long used as the standard text.


Nationality

Scottish


History

  • Born: 14 October 1687, West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland
  • Died: 1 October 1768, Glasgow, Scotland


Theorems and Definitions

Results named for Robert Simson can be found here.

Definitions of concepts named for Robert Simson can be found here.


Publications

  • 1723: Euclid's Porisms (Philosophical Transactions Vol. xl: p. 330)
  • 1735: Sectionum conicarum libri V
  • 1749: Apollonii Pergaei locorum planorum libri II, a restoration of Apollonius's lost treatise
  • 1735: Sectionum conicarum libri V (Second Edition, with additions)
  • 1756: Euclid's The Elements (Books I -- VI, XI, XII)
  • 1762: Euclid's The Elements, 2nd Edition, with Data
  • 1776: Roberti Simson opera quaedam reliqua (posthumous, published by Earl Stanhope)


Sources