Johan Jacob Ferguson

Labyrinthus algebrae, 1667

Johan Jacob Ferguson (ca. 1630 – 6 October 1691?)[1] was a Dutch mathematician who corresponded with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.

Life

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

References

  1. 1 2 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
  2. ↑ Abraham Rees (1819). "Algebra". The Cyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature. Longman, Hurst. p. 674.
  3. ↑ Stephen Jordan Rigaud, ed. (1841). Correspondence of Scientific Men of the Seventeenth Century. University Press. pp. 515–.
  4. ↑ Giornale di fisica (in Italian). Società Italiana de Física. 1990. p. 115.
  5. ↑ G. Tarozzi; Monique van Vloten (1989). Radici, significato, retaggio dell'opera newtoniana (in Italian). Società italiana di fisica. p. 371.
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