William Brouncker

Brouncker, William

Born 1620, in Castle Lyons, Ireland; died Apr. 5, 1684, in London. English mathematician.

Brouncker was one of the founders and the first president of the London Royal Society (1662-77). In 1668, Brouncker published a method of expansion for the logarithm of a rational number in an infinite series, thus, along with N. Mercator, I. Newton, and others, laying a basis for the representation of functions with the help of infinite series.

REFERENCE

Wieleitner, H. Istoriia matematiki ot Dekarta do serediny XIX stoletiia. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from German.)

单词	william brouncker
释义	William Brouncker Brouncker, William Born 1620, in Castle Lyons, Ireland; died Apr. 5, 1684, in London. English mathematician. Brouncker was one of the founders and the first president of the London Royal Society (1662-77). In 1668, Brouncker published a method of expansion for the logarithm of a rational number in an infinite series, thus, along with N. Mercator, I. Newton, and others, laying a basis for the representation of functions with the help of infinite series. REFERENCE Wieleitner, H. Istoriia matematiki ot Dekarta do serediny XIX stoletiia. Moscow, 1960. (Translated from German.)
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