Johan Jacob Ferguson
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Johan Jacob Ferguson (c. 1630 – 6 October 1691?)[1] was a Dutch mathematician who corresponded with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Life[edit]
Born around 1630 in The Hague, he died in 1706 or, according to other sources, in 1691 in Amsterdam.[1]
In his 1667 book Labyrinthus algebrae, written in low Dutch,[2] he shows the solutions of cubic and biquadratic equations using new methods.[3] The book had a partial translation in Latin (lost) and was sent to Isaac Newton.[4][5]
Works[edit]
- Ferguson, Johan Jacob (1667). Labyrinthus algebrae. In's Gravenhage: Johan Jacob Ferguson, Johannes Tongerloo, Jacobus Scheltus.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Jan A. van Maanen, Korrespondenten von G. W. Leibniz Korrespondenten von G. W. Leibniz: 11. Johan Ferguson geb. um 1630 in Haag(?), gest. vor dem 24. November 1706, vermutlich am 6. Oktober 1691 in Amsterdam, Studia Leibnitiana, Vol 22 (1990), pp. 203-216
- ^ Abraham Rees (1819). "Algebra". The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature. Longman, Hurst. p. 674.
- ^ Stephen Jordan Rigaud, ed. (1841). Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century. University Press. pp. 515–. ISBN 9780598562197.
- ^ Giornale di fisica (in Italian). Società Italiana de Física. 1990. p. 115.
- ^ G. Tarozzi; Monique van Vloten (1989). Radici, significato, retaggio dell'opera newtoniana (in Italian). Società italiana di fisica. p. 371.
