James Gregory
Also known as James Gregorie, Gregorie, James Gregory the Elder
Scottish mathematician and astronomer
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Referred to as "The Funniest Man in America" by fans and by other comedians. He set the standard for many of the well-known southern style comedians such as Bill Engvall and Jeff Foxworthy. Gregory has long been a favorite on the comedy club circuit. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/James+Gregory">Read more on Last.fm</a>
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- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 77,697x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 67,232x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 65,151x
- UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis
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James Gregory (November 1638 – October 1675) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. His surname is sometimes spelt as Gregorie, the original Scottish spelling. He described an early practical design for the reflecting telescope – the Gregorian telescope – and made advances in trigonometry, discovering infinite series representations for several trigonometric functions.
In his book Geometriae Pars Universalis (1668) Gregory gave both the first published statement and proof of the fundamental theorem of the calculus (stated from a geometric point of view, and only for a special class of the curves considered by later versions of the theorem), for which he was acknowledged by Isaac Barrow.
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