Roger Cotes

English mathematician

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Born: ( 1682-07-10 ) 10 July 1682, Burbage, Leicestershire , England
Died: 5 June 1716 (1716-06-05) (aged 33), Cambridge , Cambridgeshire , England
Alma mater: Trinity College, Cambridge
Known for: Lituus spiral , Logarithmic spiral , Least squares , Euler's formula proof , Concept of the radian , Cotes spiral , Newton–Cotes formulas
Fields: Mathematician
Institutions: Trinity College, Cambridge
Academic advisors: Isaac Newton , Richard Bentley
Notable students: Robert Smith , James Jurin , Stephen Gray

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Instance of: human
Given name: Roger
Gender: male
Citizenship: Kingdom of Great Britain
Place of birth: Burbage
Place of death: Cambridge
Occupation: physicist
Position held: Plumian Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy
Educated at: St Paul's School
Employer: University of Cambridge
Languages spoken: Latin
Award: Fellow of the Royal Society
Notable work: Newton–Cotes formula
Student of: Isaac Newton
Doctoral student: James Jurin
Field of work: mathematical analysis
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member of: Royal Society
name in native language: Roger Cotes
date of birth: 1682-07-10
date of death: 1716-06-05
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
student: Stephen Gray
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
influenced by: Isaac Newton

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Encyclopedic overview

Roger Cotes FRS (10 July 1682 – 5 June 1716) was an English mathematician, known for working closely with Isaac Newton by proofreading the second edition of his famous book, the Principia, before publication. He also devised the quadrature formulas known as Newton–Cotes formulas, which originated from Newton's research, and made a geometric argument that can be interpreted as a logarithmic version of Euler's formula. He was the first Plumian Professor at Cambridge University from 1707 until his death.

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