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James Gregory
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Scottish mathematician and astronomer
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James Gregory was a mathematician born in 1638 and died in 1675. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection. A separate James Gregory, born in 1753 and died in 1821, was an author with 36 works. His top works include "Review of the proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, from 1753 to 1804, both inclusive," "Memorial to the managers of the Royal Infirmary, MDCCC," "A letter to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas," "Reply to Dr. Gregory," and "Epigrams and poems."
Another James Gregory is a male person from Jamaica. His musical genres include classic pop and rock, dub, lovers rock, reggae, and roots. He has 1,223 listeners and 13,106 plays, with tags including comedy. Crossref lists five works associated with the name James Gregory.
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Key facts
- Born
- November 1638 ( 1638-11 ) , Drumoak , Aberdeenshire , Scotland
- Died
- October 1675 (1675-10-00) (aged 36), Edinburgh , Scotland
- Citizenship
- Scotland
- Alma mater
- Marischal College , University of Aberdeen , University of Padua
- Known for
- Gregorian telescope , Gregory coefficients , Diffraction grating , Fundamental theorem of the calculus , Integral of the secant function
- Fields
- Mathematics , Astronomy
- Institutions
- University of St. Andrews , University of Edinburgh
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- James
- Family name
- Gregory
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Scotland
- Place of death
- Edinburgh
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Aberdeen Grammar School
- Employer
- University of Edinburgh
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Church of Scotland
- Notable work
- fundamental theorem of calculus
- Student of
- Stefano degli Angeli
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Image
- James Gregory.jpeg
- Work location
- Scotland
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- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- member of
- Royal Society
- date of birth
- 1638-01-01
- date of death
- 1675-01-01
- Commons gallery
- James Gregory
- influenced by
- Henry Briggs
- name in native language
- James Gregorie
- Commons category
- James Gregory (mathematician)
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- relative
- John Gregory
- birth name
- James Gregorie
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Encyclopedic overview
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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