Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693, 27 May 1693
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Identifier: Coll-33/Quarto A [9]
Tractata et Dicta Huddenis Amsterodami, Maio 1693
Scope and Contents
Minute account of a day-long meeting with Jan Hudde in Amsterdam, covering things algebraic. Allusions to Gerardus Mercator's vindication about hyperbolics, and to foliate curves in general.
Dates
- 27 May 1693
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Duncan Fisher23 May 2001
- Algebra
- Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- Curves
- Geometry
- Gregory, David, 1659-1708 (professor of mathematics, University of Edinburgh, and Savilian Professor of Astronomy, University of Oxford)
- Hudde, Jan, 1628-1704 (Dutch mathematician)
- Mathematics
- Mercator, Gerardus, 1512-1594 (mathematician and cartographer)
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